On Jun 25, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Vincent Massol wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'd like to discuss about filtering document names when they are >>> created, i.e directly in the XWikiDocument.setFullName()/setName()/ >>> setSpace()/setDatabase() methods. >>> >>> We could filter out (i.e. remove) the following characters: >>> * pipe: | >>> * greater than: > >>> * brackets: [ and ] >>> * apostrophe: ' >>> * quote: " >>> * colon: : >>> * dot: . >>> * forward slash: / >>> >>> Any other? >>> >>> The reason for ., :, |, >, [ and ] is because these are reserved >>> characters in wiki link format. >>> >>> Another option is to allow some escaping for these chars when >>> writing >>> a wiki link. >>> >>> Last we need to think about documents in the DB and which already >>> have >>> these chars. Should we write a migrator to filter these chars too? >>> Probably. >>> >>> WDYT? >>> >>> Some related jira issues: >>> * http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1443 >>> * http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2501 >> >> And replace them with what? Simply remove them? >> >> The good thing is that the document title can use any character. >> >> On the other hand, I'd rather be able to use any character. >> >> The best solution would be to escape this kind of characters, but >> it's too hard. > > Yes I would prefer to be able to use anything for documents names but > escaping can be hard to support.
I'd prefer that too but there are some characters we have not choice other than removing. For example the "/" needs to be removed from a document name as otherwise it'll clash in the URL. Same goes for ? Of course best would be to use an ID for a document but the problem remains the same for the aliases in the URLs to that document. > I guess Vincent you are at the best place attach a difficulty level to > this with your work on the new rendering/parsing. I don't know how this is handled by wikimodel: [Test[Test>Test]]. I'll need to try it. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
