I've been taking a look at the taxonomy documentation to see if I can improve on it. However, there are two features in taxonomy that I still don't understand what they do. So I'm wondering if these are merely metatags which are not yet being used:
1) Related terms. Using an exisiting vocabularly on my test site (am running today's cvs), I enabled related terms in the vocabulary. Then, I took one of the exisiting terms and related it to another one. What I'm not seeing is the effect. I assumed that when I clicked on the category listing for the term on my home page, it would include nodes in the listing from the related term. Did not. Where does the related terms come into use? Is it in a specific module?
2) Also, where/how does Drupal use the synonym attribute for terms?
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taxo features
Related terms is not used by taxonomy.module. It *may* be used by other modules. As an example, glossary.module uses presents related terms on its main page. For example, when you look at a glossary entry for 'cat', it might have a line showing 'See also: feline, lion'
Synonyms are similarly used by some modules but not by the Core. Glossary.module treats a synonynm of a term just like that term when making popup descriptions of glossary terms.
Taxo features
Great! So I wasn't crazy :)
Probably good to add in this note into the documentation. I'll be working on a revision.