Generally speaking, identifiers are limited to alphanumeric characters and
the underscore (_), with digits not permitted as the first character.
Additionally, by convention identifiers beginning with an underscore
represent 'private' identities.
HTH,
Ian
Ian D. Stewart
Open Systems Engineer II
Enterprise Midrange - Bank One Infrastructure & Operations
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Anne Thomas Manes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08/14/2003 09:45:38 AM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: question regarding axis in tomcat
A service name is an NCname -- so the question is, are blanks allowed in
an NCname. From the XML spec, here are the requirements for an NCname
(anyone here know how to interpret Unicode?):
The character classes defined here can be derived from the Unicode 2.0
character database as follows:
* Name start characters must have one of the categories Ll, Lu, Lo, Lt,
Nl.
* Name characters other than Name-start characters must have one of the
categories Mc, Me, Mn, Lm, or Nd.
* Characters in the compatibility area (i.e. with character code
greater than #xF900 and less than #xFFFE) are not allowed in XML names.
* Characters which have a font or compatibility decomposition (i.e.
those with a "compatibility formatting tag" in field 5 of the database --
marked by field 5 beginning with a "<") are not allowed.
* The following characters are treated as name-start characters rather
than name characters, because the property file classifies them as
Alphabetic: [#x02BB-#x02C1], #x0559, #x06E5, #x06E6.
* Characters #x20DD-#x20E0 are excluded (in accordance with Unicode
2.0, section 5.14).
* Character #x00B7 is classified as an extender, because the property
list so identifies it.
* Character #x0387 is added as a name character, because #x00B7 is its
canonical equivalent.
* Characters ':' and '_' are allowed as name-start characters.
* Characters '-' and '.' are allowed as name characters.
At 10:26 AM 8/14/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Guys,
>
>Is this not an argument about web service namimg conventions? I have never
>seen a web service name with spaces (although I am fairly new to this
game)
>so could someone on the list advise whether spaces in service names are
>advisable at all?
>
>Jim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shantanu Sen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 14 August 2003 00:23
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: question regarding axis in tomcat
> >
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > I agree that this will be easier. But customers may
> > want spaces in their service names for whatever
> > reason.
> >
> > Also, this brings out a problem with the
> > MessageContext properties initialization in
> > AxisServlet. It forces me to override the get/post
> > methods where I could just override the
> > createMessageContext method if it was protected.
> >
> > Probably I should post this axis-dev.
> >
> > Shantanu
> >
> > --- chaddad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Shantanu -
> > >
> > > If you have control over the service, it would be
> > > easier to just remove the space from the service
> > > name.
> > >
> > >
> > > /Chris
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Original Message
> > > ----------------------------------
> > > From: Shantanu Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:05:55 -0700 (PDT)
> > >
> > > >Now if the service name has spaces e.g. "My
> > > Service",
> > > >I see a problem
> >
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