On 8/10/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
The easiest solution to me would be to use the text space of a category as the list. You would end up with every entry listed twice: once by some arbitrary sort order (eg, year), and once alphabetically. In the list part at the top, you can put your annotations. The category listing at the bottom basically serves to check that the list part is up to date and that there aren't any stray additions.
That makes sense. In order to prevent duplication, you could even check if a link to an article has already been displayed in the top list-part, and exclude it from the category-part at the bottom.
I'm poking through the category code right now, and I'll see which approach (category text as list vs. extended attributes for category tags) will work best. I suspect the former, since it won't require any database changes, although the extra parsing step to check for duplicates (which I think is necessary to make this solution palatable) might be too much.
-Bill Clark