Re: [PATCH] svn_fs_revision_prop and friends

Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com> writes:
> Yoshiki's function works on binary data. At the moment, we place no
> constraints on property names.
>
> I'm willing to restrict property names somewhat, but not too much.
> Excluding the null byte would be okay. Using UTF-8 in Normalization
> form C would be okay. (And I think that would mean we could carry
> them in cleartext in XML, right?)
>
> What do people think about this?

I think that's fine.

And should these constraints on property names also apply to (i.e., be
a subset of the constraints on) filenames? Then our old issue with
the filenames and property names being expressed as attributes in XML
gets resolved, and we don't have to change the DTD.

-K
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:24 2006