<letterbar> not present in structure.rdf but present on dmoz.org web-site.

Hello!

I have found that on some pages letter bars (in non-english languages) are present on web-site, e.g. http://dmoz.org/World/Russian/Искусство/Музыка/Группы_и_исполнители/ but not found in structure.rdf

It it bug or feature? Are letter bars generated automatically? I thought that every letter bar should be presented in content.rdf. In what cases letter bars are described in structure.rdf? Is it depends on language?

Thanks!

Are you saying that categories such as http://dmoz.org/World/Russian/Искусство/Музыка/Группы_и_исполнители/Д/ are missing cmpletely from the structure RDF, or that they are incorrectly marked as <narrow ....> rather than <letterbar ...> in the parent category, or that there is no element for them in the parent category?

[ I think I'm currect in saying that <letterbar> functions just like a sub-category, and while the letterbar links are displayed on each of the letter sub-categories on dmoz.org (eg http://dmoz.org/World/Russian/Искусство/Музыка/Группы_и_исполнители/Д/), in the RDF the letterbar elements should occur only once in the main parent category (eg http://dmoz.org/World/Russian/Искусство/Музыка/Группы_и_исполнители/). ]

Yes, I was not exact. Such categories incorrectly marked as narrow instead of letterbar. I even see the combined case when in some category english letters was made as letterbars and russian as narrows. So, when parsing RDF I must use a guess: when there are more than one narrow and all points to subcategories with names that consist of one (and perhaps two: what about spanish ch, rr and ll letters?) characters long, then I treat them as letterbars and not narrows.

Thanks.

I've posted in our internal forums to see if someone can look into this. I presume it's an issue with the non-ascii characters not being identified as part of the alphabar (internally I think they're represented in exactly the same way as a normal sub-category, and the fact that they're single letters normally makes than come out differently).

Thanks! I will wait for news.