* fojbe@...
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| Browsing through job offerings can be by job location(s), job work
| area(s) and salary.
|
| As I found out: A resource can not map to two or more headings in
| the same taxonomy.

You are correct about this restriction in XFML. I am not aware of any
workaround for this within XFML 1.0.

| If so, it is impossible to say that one job takes place in two
| different locations and job description can not be in two or more
| predefined work areas (say "java programmer" and "information
| architect").
|
| I just started exploring things in this area, so maybe I am
| conceptually wrong.
|
| What do you say?

Well, one obvious alternative (to me, anyway) is to drop XFML and
instead use something that does let you do this. One candidate would
be XTM, which could do this easily:

- topics (of type location) for locations,

- locations have names, maybe finer-grained types like (city,
country, state, ...), and maybe associations building a hierarchy
(contained-in),

- work areas you can treat the same way,

- job offers become topics of type job-offer, with associations to
location(s) and area(s) and an occurrence for the salary range.

That should do it, but you can of course go further and create a more
complex ontology for your domain if it seems useful. Creating a
faceted search system for this ontology should not be hard. (I could
show you an example of this on a public web site, but unfortunately it
is in Norwegian.)

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