Re: [xml-dev] Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?

["Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com>]

On Feb 18, 2008 8:27 PM, Nicholas Sushkin <nsushkin@openfinance.com> wrote:
> In many cases the files and directories are named after music pieces and
> created by a music management program from the music title. Those names
> contain a lot of spaces, quotes, punctuation, non-ASCII and other
> characters.

Thanks for the information. I have not closely looked at music file
names. It surely sounds vastly incompatible to XML name rules.

The problem I was having is - Given a root directory, I needed to
generate a XML hierarchy depicting the file system hierarchy, starting
from the given root. I wrote a recursive Java program and converted
the information to XML, using Xerces DOM implementation.

Some of the directory/file names didn't conform to the XML name
conventions. Like, some directory names started with numeric. Some
contained characters like - (hyphen), ~ etc.

Would somebody agree with me, that XML names should allow such rules?
My problem could serve as a use case ...


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi