Rules and matching on Taxonomy attributes

Hi,
I need to find duplicate records based on the attributes of taxonomy. But in the rules section we can only drill down to class level not the characterstic level.
For eg:
Class: Shirt
     Atrributes     Values
      Size          40
               42
     Colur          Black
               Blue
     Type          Full
               Shirt
The rule should be on attributes. So if two records are having same Class-Attribute combination they should be identified as duplicates.
How can we do this using MDM?
Regards,
Ketan

Ketan,
There is no such facility available in Data Manager in MDM 5.5 SP05.
May be its possible (not sure) using MDM Java APIs or ABAP APIs.
Probably soon we will see this feature in MDM SP06 or 07.
Pls rewards if found helpful.
BR,
Alok Sharma

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