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Posted by Steve Brown on 05/26/05 21:46
> Food:Fruit:Red
> Food:Fruit:Green
> Food:Fruit:Yellow
> Food:Vegetables:Long
> Food:Vegetables:Round
> Food:Vegetables:Round:Spikey
> Food:Vegetables:Round:Smooth
How is your structure being built? Is it hard-coded or dynamic (e.g.
pulled from a DB)? We employ a similar "tree" structure for manging
items in our store front. Believe me when I say, its a hell of a lot
easier to only be concerned about the current item rathen then every
item in the sturcture. Consider that a 1-to-many relationship is much
easier to deal with than a many-to-many relationship. What I mean is,
if you are looking at the element "Round", don't concern yourself with
"Fruit" or "Long". Figure out your "upstream" path for the current
element, e.g. "Food:Vegetables" (which should be easy if you assume
that each element only has 1 parent). Then figure out the children
for the current element, e.g. "Spikey" and "Round". KISS. :)
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