[Sigia-l] Breadcrumbs - case study (maybe OT)

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"Beau Lebens" wrote:

> In our discussions here so far, my metaphorical file (any particular page on a
> site) may actually exist in multiple directories (classifications/categories).
> This is outside any normal metaphor that is used in computer interaction -
> which is part of the reason I think we are struggling with it a little.

Well, give Microsoft (Longhorn) enough time and they will claim to have
discovered the file-system-as-(meta)database :-) which will/may bring some
sense of virtuality to the notion of a 'file'.

If you serve web 'pages' out of a database or simply generate them on the
fly, again the notion of a file-system-specific page doesn't quite apply.
You can also 'rewrite' your file paths via your web server, so the URLs sent
to the browser could be cloaked in an entirely different classification than
what files on a the OSes file system would dictate. So you can create a
virtual file system transparent to users.

In any case, this is why God created relational DBs.

Ziya
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