Hello, I'm looking for clarification about what values are permitted for NAME attributes, e.g. in <TMPL_VAR NAME="WHATEVER">.
The documentation ( http://html-template.sourceforge.net/html_template.html ) says that these characters are allowed: Numbers, letters, '.', '/', '+', '-' and '_'. I've been using colons (":") in my NAME values for some time now (with HTML::Template v2.7) without realizing that it's not "allowed", and it's worked as expected. I just took a look at the source code, and it appears that the software will parse NAME attribute values including almost any character. I don't know if any additional checking of those values is performed later. I personally think that it's best for software to actually restrict the format of input to what's documented, as much as possible. In any case, I need to know for sure what values are permitted. I'm writing an application, that I'll be releasing as free software, that interacts with HTML::Template and it's very important that I write the software and documentation with the proper format of NAME values taken into account. For the values used in my application that correspond to <TMPL_VAR> NAME values, I'm using the same format as HTML 4.01 ID / NAME tokens: [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_:.-]* (See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-id ) So, the only issue for me is the ":" character, but I don't plan to change the format definition I'm using and I need to know whether I can officially use that character in HTML::Template NAME values or if I have to warn my users about the issue. Thanks for the great piece of software! Obviously the best thing for me would be if I could legitimately use the ":" character, but the most important thing is to find out definitely one way or the other. Thanks, Jesse McCarthy http://www.nextlevelarts.com/ P.S. The documentation I linked to contains information about the mailing list that doesn't match information found elsewhere on the site and in the v2.8 documentation on CPAN -- not sure if that information is still viable? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list Html-template-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users
