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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:39:29 +0100
From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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Jukka Zitting schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/1/07, Paco Avila <pavila@git.es> wrote:
>> Can I escape invalid chars as : and * to be included in a node name?
> 
> You can, for example by using URI encoding or some similar mechanism.
> 
> There is a slow ongoing debate about how to best handle such names,
> and whether there should be some standard escaping mechanism. My best
> advice would be to use a string property if you want to avoid any
> restrictions on illegal characters.

Nit: but even with a string property there some characters will be 
illegal, right? Or wasn't that the agreed-upon answer on what to do with 
string properties that contain characters not allowed in XML (1.0) 
content (such as most control characters)?

Best regards, Julian