[Zope-CMF] List of subject/metadata sets?

[seb bacon]

* Jon Edwards <jon@pcgs.freeserve.co.uk> [010605 15:06]:
> A couple of thoughts on your thoughts! :-)
> 
> 1. You wouldn't need to import the whole structure, just the branch you
> wanted (e.g. my sites are mainly for doctors, so the Health branch of the
> tree would be all I need), though I think you would have to download the
> whole file to get the bits you want... but only once? There is a python
> project called Oedipus that lets you import links from dmoz, but last time I
> looked it said its Zope support wasnt working yet -
> http://oedipus.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 2. Your list of subjects could perhaps be a flat list (e.g. "Health",
> "Health - Medicine", "Health - Medicine - Brain Surgery", "Health -
> Medicine - Diabetes"), then you could use Topics/Subtopics queries or
> Catalog Queries to do the displaying for the end-user?

(See my other post)

> 
> Going off at a tangent, does anyone ever get the feeling that you maybe need
> two portal_catalogs? One for end-user searching, topics, etc. and one for
> the internals, composite-docs and that sort of stuff?

How do you mean?  Wouldn't that mean you end up with lots of objects
being indexed in two places?  

seb