Re: request to clarify and improve Subversion property name specification

Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> writes:

> Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org> writes:
>
>> On 30.01.2012 11:14, Philip Martin wrote:
>>> - the backend FS layer allows any null terminated string as a property
>>> name
>>>
>>> - the frontend client layer restricts property names to a subset of
>>> ASCII
>>
>> And the HTTP layer has its own implicit restrictions.
>
> The property name gets transferred as an XML name but it appears that
> the server does some escaping to allow non-XML-name characters. If I
> use 'svnadmin load' to set a property with a name 'p<>p' then I can
> still checkout over http, the XML sent over the wire is:
>
> <S:set-prop name="p&lt;&gt;p">vvvv</S:set-prop>

That's for neon, when using serf the checkout fails:

svn: E175009: XML parsing failed: (207 Multi-Status)

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