Best practice for editing multiple nodes on a page

I am working on a bug in the acidfree module.
http://drupal.org/node/5
9439
I have tracked down the issue to a conflict between the
path.module the 
way acidfree edits multiple images at once.
Acidfree calls node_load for many images in an album to
create a page 
that allows the user to move/rename/delete many items at
once.
The problem is that when hook_nodeapi is called it ends up
creating a 
form that does not save the same a single node.

Is there a normal/approved/easy method for editing multiple
nodes on a page?
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I can think of several
ways to patch 
the problem, but I would prefer to submit a 'correct' fix.

Thanks-
Scott White (wpd)
White Paper Designs

Scott,

I found myself wanting to edit multiple nodes at once.  But
not exactly
the way you are.  Rather, I wanted to edit taxonomy terms
and workflow
states for multiple nodes.

The code may be of interest to some of you.  Its in my
sandbox here
<http://cvs.drupal.org/v
iewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/yogadex/modules/multiedi
t/>

Anyone interested should read more about it here
<http://dave-cohen
.com/node/1044> (which includes a discussion of why I
do not plan to move this code from my sandbox into contrib).

-Dave


On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:34:16 -0500, "Scott
White"
<webdesignwhitepaperdesigns.com> said:
> I am working on a bug in the acidfree module.
> http://drupal.org/node/5
9439
> I have tracked down the issue to a conflict between the
path.module the 
> way acidfree edits multiple images at once.
> Acidfree calls node_load for many images in an album to
create a page 
> that allows the user to move/rename/delete many items
at once.
> The problem is that when hook_nodeapi is called it ends
up creating a 
> form that does not save the same a single node.
> 
> Is there a normal/approved/easy method for editing
multiple nodes on a
> page?
> Any thoughts would be appreciated. I can think of
several ways to patch 
> the problem, but I would prefer to submit a 'correct'
fix.
> 
> Thanks-
> Scott White (wpd)
> White Paper Designs