nodes with : in name?

[Torgeir Veimo <to...@pobox.com>]

Is it possible to have nodes with : in the name using escaping? Eg  
\: ? I can't seem to find any way to do it?
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Torgeir Veimo
torgeir@pobox.com

Re: nodes with : in name?

[David Nuescheler <da...@gmail.com>]

> > I would be interested in your usecase though since a ':' is a
> > reserved character
> > in just about everything that could think of that would be exposed
> > as a "name".
> This is data coming from our older legacy repository, which doesn't
> use namespaces. I'll just use %3A for now.
i see...

> For general use when eg importing existing filesystem data, I guess
> it would be appropriate to use URLEncode on filenames.
well, that's certainly a simple way to deal with it.
the only drawback is that you automatically encode characters that do not
need encoding. since i would not expect ':''s in (windows & mac)
filesystems the problem should not exist in a typical filesystem import.

regards,
david

Re: nodes with : in name?

[Torgeir Veimo <to...@pobox.com>]

On 26 Jan 2007, at 08:53, David Nuescheler wrote:

>
> I would be interested in your usecase though since a ':' is a  
> reserved character
> in just about everything that could think of that would be exposed  
> as a "name".

This is data coming from our older legacy repository, which doesn't  
use namespaces. I'll just use %3A for now.

For general use when eg importing existing filesystem data, I guess  
it would be appropriate to use URLEncode on filenames.

-- 
Torgeir Veimo
torgeir@pobox.com

Re: nodes with : in name?

[David Nuescheler <da...@gmail.com>]

Hi Togeir,

generally the ':' is reserved as the separator after the namespace-prefix,
but if your application for example wants to support something like a URL
escaping then you are free to use for example %3A as an escaping sequence.

I would recommend to stay away from a colon in node names.

I would be interested in your usecase though since a ':' is a reserved character
in just about everything that could think of that would be exposed as a "name".

regards,
david

On 1/26/07, Torgeir Veimo <to...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to have nodes with : in the name using escaping? Eg
> \: ? I can't seem to find any way to do it?
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> Torgeir Veimo
> torgeir@pobox.com
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