On Apr 17, 2011, at 7:08 PM, shouldbe q931 wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 17, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
>> 
>>> On 04/17/2011 07:40 PM, shouldbe q931 wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Vincent Massol<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi "shouldbe q931" (don't you have a real name? I prefer to address
>> human
>>>>> beings ;)),
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 17, 2011, at 6:25 PM, shouldbe q931 wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We are manually copying over quite a lot of content from a Confluence
>>>>> Wiki
>>>>>> into an Xwiki wiki, and a problems that we keep hitting is periods in
>>>>> page
>>>>>> names.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As an example if I enclose in square quotes "init.d changes for
>> tomcat6
>>>>> on
>>>>>> Ubuntu 10.10"  Xwiki displays it as just "10" when showing the page,
>>>>> however
>>>>>> it creates it with URL "
>>>>>> http://f.q.d.n/xwiki/bin/view/init.d+for+ubuntu+10/10";
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Am I missing something ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> * What version of XE are you using?
>>>>> * How are you creating the pages?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dots are supposed to be allowed since some time but it's possible that
>> the
>>>>> way you use to create the page has a bug with dots which would need to
>> be
>>>>> fixed ASAP if that's true.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Hi Vincent,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm on 3.0.36132 which was upgraded from 3 milestone 2.
>>>> 
>>>> I can re-create it by going into the sandbox, creating a new page with
>> just
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>> [[init.d changes for tomcat6 on Ubuntu 10.10]]
>>> 
>>> You have to escape . in link reference because . is also used for
>>> separating the space name from the page name.
>> 
>> Indeed
>> 
>>> In you case you are
>>> creating a link to page "10" in space "init.d changes for tomcat6 on
>>> Ubuntu 10". I guess you want to write:
>>> 
>>> [[init\.d changes for tomcat6 on Ubuntu 10\.10]]
>> 
>> Haven't tried but I thought the escape symbol was "~":
>> 
>> [[init~.d changes for tomcat6 on Ubuntu 10~.10]]
>> 
>> -Vincent
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> in it. and then clicking "save and view"
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>> As we are copying in Confluence content, my default editor is not the
>>>> wysiwyg one.
>>> 
>>> Too bad because the WYSIWYG editor escapes the . in page names when
>>> creating links.
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Marius
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>> 
>> 
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> The \ works but the ~ didn't.

Ah yes indeed my bad, "~" is to escape wiki syntax but this isn't wiki syntax, 
it's the syntax for references.

Thanks
-Vincent
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