Thanks. I found this discussion:
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Layer-and-store-names-td5167890.html
TL;DR - spaces should not be used, and preferably names should be valid XML
tag names (defined here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT-Name)
I thought I might add this to the user guide...
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Martin Davis <mtncl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there any standard or best practice for the valid charset used for
>> layer names? E.g. it seems like using URL-significant chars is not a good
>> idea (comma, semicolon, amp, etc).
>>
>> If a layer is renamed from the default name (ie. the store resource
>> name), is there any way in the UI to know what the name of the underlying
>> resource is?
>>
>
> Check the geoserver-devel archives, we had multiple discussons on the
> topic, what's valid for one standard is not valid for the other and so on.
> GeoServer poses no limitation, you're free to hang yourself (but also to
> respect naming standards that would be forbidden if we picked the
> minimum common denominator).
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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