Subject: RE: Extended file extentions (XfeX) for xml/xsl files From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liamquin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 14:47:40 -0500 (EST) |
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 -- Liam Quin, Barefoot Computing, Toronto; The barefoot agitator l i a m at h o l o w e b dot n e t Ankh on irc.sorcery.net, http://www.valinor.sorcery.net/~liam/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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