RE: Extended file extentions (XfeX) for xml/xsl files

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liamquin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When it comes to file names,
consider the possible uses of a file, and where the name might appear

in a URL -- have to quote certain characters

Can't use "." (special meaning on Windows, some Windows programs
really hate files with more than one dot in their names)

Can't use ":" (Windows can crash, and the Mac doesn't allow it)

Can't use "_" on an old format CD-ROM, but you onky get 8+3 fiename
length there anyway.

@ will cause you problems if you try to use rcp or scp, but it
can be escaped with effort; it might make spam detectors go crazy,
which could be a good thing or a bad thing ;-)

"{" and "}" are not on the keyboard in some countries, and not in the
character set used by some people -- same with [ and ] -- and also not
allowed in filenames in some systems.  I doubt you can have "{" in a
filename on an IBM CMS system for example :) and you certainly can't
use [ or ] in a VMS file.

The characters allowed *inside* files are not the same as those
allowed in filenames :)

I would suggest using just "-" for interoperability.

Lee

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