how can I escape invalid chars in node name?

[Paco Avila <pa...@git.es>]

Can I escape invalid chars as : and * to be included in a node name?
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Re: how can I escape invalid chars in node name?

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 3/1/07, Julian Reschke <ju...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Jukka Zitting schrieb:
> > There is a slow ongoing debate about how to best handle such names,
> > and whether there should be some standard escaping mechanism. My best
> > advice would be to use a string property if you want to avoid any
> > restrictions on illegal characters.
>
> Nit: but even with a string property there some characters will be
> illegal, right? Or wasn't that the agreed-upon answer on what to do with
> string properties that contain characters not allowed in XML (1.0)
> content (such as most control characters)?

No, the illegal XML characters only cause trouble with the XML import
and export features (see JCR-674). There should be no restrictions
when string properties are accessed using the normal JCR API methods -
anything you can express in UTF-16 (as used by Java) should be OK with
Jackrabbit.

BR,

Jukka Zitting

Re: how can I escape invalid chars in node name?

[Julian Reschke <ju...@gmx.de>]

Jukka Zitting schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/1/07, Paco Avila <pa...@git.es> wrote:
>> Can I escape invalid chars as : and * to be included in a node name?
> 
> You can, for example by using URI encoding or some similar mechanism.
> 
> There is a slow ongoing debate about how to best handle such names,
> and whether there should be some standard escaping mechanism. My best
> advice would be to use a string property if you want to avoid any
> restrictions on illegal characters.

Nit: but even with a string property there some characters will be 
illegal, right? Or wasn't that the agreed-upon answer on what to do with 
string properties that contain characters not allowed in XML (1.0) 
content (such as most control characters)?

Best regards, Julian

Re: how can I escape invalid chars in node name?

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 3/1/07, Paco Avila <pa...@git.es> wrote:
> Can I escape invalid chars as : and * to be included in a node name?

You can, for example by using URI encoding or some similar mechanism.

There is a slow ongoing debate about how to best handle such names,
and whether there should be some standard escaping mechanism. My best
advice would be to use a string property if you want to avoid any
restrictions on illegal characters.

BR,

Jukka Zitting