Gak; interesting problem. It is almost like we need a "strict" mode and a as
you say a relaxed mode.
Jody
On 07/05/2010, at 11:59 PM, Andrea Aime wrote:
> Hi,
> say one has a table or a view that contains charaters that are invalid
> xml tag wise, such as spaces. For example, "My name".
>
> That makes it impossible to use that layer for WFS purposes for sure,
> but I've found that it makes it impossible to use the attribute for
> other things as well. For example, I cannot use it in SLD as a source
> of labels, or as a size, and so on.
>
> This is probably because the property accessors check for "word chars
> only" regexp before stating they can actually handle the value:
>
> static Pattern propertyPattern = Pattern.compile("(\\w+:)?(\\w+)");
>
> I would say this is a case of being overzealous, since XML output
> is not the only possible use of the data.
> However, how can we tell apart that from a full xpath?
> I guess we could decide to let go a little and assume there are other
> chars past the word ones that make up a simple feature attribute?
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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