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

[IZh]

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/%d0%98%d1%81%d0%ba%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be/%d0%9c%d1%83%d0%b7%d1%8b%d0%ba%d0%b0/%d0%93%d1%80%d1%83%d0%bf%d0%bf%d1%8b_%d0%b8_%d0%b8%d1%81%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b8/ 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!

[chaos127]

Are you saying that categories such as http://dmoz.org/World/Russian/%d0%98%d1%81%d0%ba%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be/%d0%9c%d1%83%d0%b7%d1%8b%d0%ba%d0%b0/%d0%93%d1%80%d1%83%d0%bf%d0%bf%d1%8b_%d0%b8_%d0%b8%d1%81%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b8/%d0%94/ 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/%d0%98%d1%81%d0%ba%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be/%d0%9c%d1%83%d0%b7%d1%8b%d0%ba%d0%b0/%d0%93%d1%80%d1%83%d0%bf%d0%bf%d1%8b_%d0%b8_%d0%b8%d1%81%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b8/%d0%94/), in the RDF the letterbar elements should occur only once in the main parent category (eg http://dmoz.org/World/Russian/%d0%98%d1%81%d0%ba%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be/%d0%9c%d1%83%d0%b7%d1%8b%d0%ba%d0%b0/%d0%93%d1%80%d1%83%d0%bf%d0%bf%d1%8b_%d0%b8_%d0%b8%d1%81%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b8/). ]

[IZh]

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.

[chaos127]

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).

[IZh]

Thanks! I will wait for news.