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

[Andy McKay]

Dont put . in id's... I try not to anyway. Could we say . or if your id has
a . use something else eg:

&dtml-foo.[bar.dot].y

?

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     Andy McKay, Developer, ActiveState
     http://www.ActiveState.com
     Programming for the People


----- 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 1:57 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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