Customize display of category group names in item regions (902)

Multi-level categorization is inconsistent within different portal contexts. Flat category structures work fine but sub-categories do not.
For example let's define a set of categories: foo, foo/bar, test, test/foo, abc, abc/bar
where bar is a sub-category of foo and so forth.
The additem wizard shows the category in the form: category/sub-category/sub-sub-category/etc which is the preferred approach.
However, an item region having Group By Category and "Display Group By Banner" checked is not the same. Here the group-by-text only shows the end-category name (not the full category/sub-category); i.e., only shows the last group "category" without the context of the full category.
Want to show items in following style:
     foo
          item1
     foo/bar
          item2
     test/foo
          item3
     abc/bar
          item4
As opposed to:
     foo
          item1
     bar
          item2
     foo
          item3
     bar
          item4
Likewise, in the Advanced search the list of categories to search for are:
     foo
     .bar
     test
     .foo
     abc
     .bar
What are some best practices to customize the display of custom items with sub-categories showing the full category/sub-category in 9iAS 9.0.2?
Explicitly creating a flat category structure with '/' in the names doesn't seem the best use of item categories.
And it looks like the content area SDK won't be available for a little while.

Hi Jason
The only way to show the path of your nested categories in the display banner is to name the subcatgory with the path information (i.e. 'test/foo' not 'foo'). The problem with showing the full path is scalability - rendering a deeply nested tree in the display banner or as an attribute would cause real problems. It was a design decision to go with the way that it is. If you feel strongly that Development should reconsider this decision, please feel free to log an enhancement request at:
http://ers.oracle.com
Product: Portal
Component: Portal UI

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