Re: request to clarify and improve Subversion property name specification

On 1/23/2012 9:23 AM, Philip Martin wrote:
> What constitutes a valid XML name? I suppose it's things that don't
> require XML escaping?

An XML name is things like the name of an element, e.g. <fooBar>. You
can't "escape" in an XML name, anyway. The specification of a valid XML
name is here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Name

> So you would relax the restrictions in svn_prop_name_is_valid which
> would relax the restrictions libsvn_client. That in turn would relax
> the restrictions in JavaHL, the other bindings and the command line
> client. No protocol changes would be required.

That sounds correct, although I don't know the code well enough to speak
to actual API calls. Basically I'm proposing that we set publicly what
constitutes a valid Subversion name, and then make whatever code changes
are needed to conform. A test suite comes to mind as a tool to assist in
this, but that's another subject altogether.

Garret
Received on 2012-01-23 18:42:00 CET