[Tagdb] I agree

[Nitin Borwankar]

Yes, agree it is more of a UI issue.  I think the long discussion thread 
arose out of an earlier assertion that database and other technical 
design simplicity should drive what we "allow" users to do.
Them's fighting words in this brave new Web 2.0 world.
Nitin

Bill Ward wrote:

>Regarding single vs multiple word tags - what does that have to do
>with the database design?  Tags are strings, whether they have spaces
>in them or not.  Whether to allow multi-word tags is a UI decision,
>not a DB one.
>
>I made a suggestion earlier which does have some bearing on tag DB -
>split up the multi-word string into words and store those in addition
>to the full string.  So if the user tags with "dog house" the entries
>"dog house," "dog," and "house" would be stored.  You could even flag
>"dog" and "house" as being derived tags, and perhaps the display logic
>would ignore them, though the business logic would allow them to be
>used in searches, but perhaps weighted less than tags that were
>explicitly tagged "dog" or "house."
>
>Other than things like that, I fail to see how the multi-word-tag
>issue has any bearing on tag database design...??
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