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

[Phil Harris]

-, that;s a hyphen to you
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
To: "Shane Hathaway" <shane@digicool.com>
Cc: "Jonothan Farr" <jfarr@real.com>; <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 9:57 PM
Subject: [Zope-dev] Aaargh, no safe seperators :S


> 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
> 
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