[Zope-dev] Aaargh, no safe seperators :S

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:57:45 +0100


Shane Hathaway wrote:
> That would probably work, but isn't kind of ugly?  Now we'd be forcing
> people to realize that colons can be path separators.  Only Mac users
> know this. :-)

Well, 

  / and \ are bad XML

  ; is bad XML, and _really_ ugly

  . confuses when there's .'s in ids

Any other suggestions :S

cheers,

Chris