Re: Taxonomies and Stable URIs

On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 01:14, Joseph Reagle wrote:
> Recently, there's been much discussion on "taxonomies" and I'm using one 
> myself but finding that once I start using it, I'm stuck. It's difficult to 
> reorganize without breaking my permalinks [1]. It it possible to use a date 
> based URI as the permalink, will that also work with trackbacks and 
> comments?

If you consider a link like
http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/technology/taxonomy-uris to be a hassle
when reorganising your weblog, it's true that it will break permalinks.
The closest you can get at for a date based link would actually be the
ugly http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/2003/Nov/28#taxonomy-uris type of
URLs, and since you have two entries on that date, the '#taxonomy-uris'
part is a necessary evil. One could modify pyblosxom (or create a
plugin) that would interpret
http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/2003/Nov/28/taxonomy-uris as a single
entry, thereby making comments and possibly trackbacks/pingbacks work.

I know that Ted had put in some effort to recognise urls containing
'#foo' to be recognised by some parts of the feedback system, but it
needs to be tested.

One thing to take note of is that although one could record the fragment
part of the URL, it will never be passed through a browser, that means
the browser handles the '#taxonomy-uris' part, but never sends that info
to the webserver. Pingbacks should be much more forgiving, and in
trackbacks: I have no idea.

The best way to deal with not having taxomonies as part of permalinks,
is to have a plugin handling
http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/2003/Nov/28/taxonomy-uris type of uris
nicely.




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