There is $util.clearName(..) api to transform a text to a valid page name.. There is $xwiki.getUniquePageName to additionally generate a unique unused one
Ludovic Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi Jonas, > > This is an area that we need to improve. There's currently no check on > page names but as you guessed we have some limitations so we need to > add some checks. > > I need to update the XWiki Syntax page since the link separator is now > >> instead of > > > So the current rules (As far I can imagine them) are: > * no "[[" or "]]" > * no ">>" > * no ":" (since it's used as the subwiki name) > * no ".". Note that the dot is currently allowed (the first dot > separates the space from the page name) - We need to forbid it in the > future since we want to add support for hierarchical spaces. > > Right now the document name parsing is still using the old code so you > shouldl currently get the same behavior as with xwiki 1.0 syntax > > Thanks for raising this > -Vincent > > On Nov 20, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Jonas von Malottki wrote: > > >> Hello Devs, >> >> is there some Documentation (or a Regex) which Characters are >> practically allowed in page and space names? I am unable to find this. >> >> From the syntax page it is kind of clear that the following ones are >> not really usable: >> "." Because of Space Prefix >> "[]" Link itself >> "()%" new formatting characters >> ">" alias of links >> >> I was playing around and if you enter some page name like >> "hello.hello.hello" you'll get a page named "hello" in the Space >> "hello.hello". If you enter "hello\.hello" it'll just display nothing. >> (on XWiki 1.7 M2) >> >> Maybe XWiki should check if the given page or space name is actually >> valid, before creating the page? >> >> Nice greetings >> Jonas >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
