Ok, how about:
Names must be compatible with their use in OWS service requests and
response documents. For general use, consider using only the characters:
upper and lowercase letters, numbers, dash, underscore and period. Spaces
can be present, but will need to be escaped in URLs.
The wording "consider using" is meant to indicate this is only a suggestion
to avoid possible pain, not a validation rule.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Martin Davis <mtncl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Great, all good advice. I was curious about the provenance of the
>> featuretype naming standard, so spelunked through the standards docs to get
>> the final word... The WFS spec [1] says that a typename must be a XML
>> Qname, and the XML spec [2] says that a QName Name part must start with a
>> letter or underscore.
>>
>> So now it could say:
>>
>> Names must be compatible with their use in OWS service requests and
>> response documents. Names must start with a letter or underscore. Spaces
>> can be present, but will need to be escaped in URLs. For general use,
>> consider using only the following characters: upper and lowercase letters,
>> numbers, dash, underscore and period.
>>
>
> Without qualifying that the above sentence is valid for WFS only, that
> sentence cannot be accepted in the user guide.
> A better approach is to list the limits imposed by all standards and
> version (WCS versions different greatly between one and the next for
> example), and then you can provide a guidance for naming that would be
> valid for all standards.
>
> I hate repeating myself, but just a few mails ago I wrote:
> "People having externally mandated naming conventions might get really
> mad, or stop using GeoServer at all, if we start telling them to play within
> the confines of XML naming conventions, so let's be clear that the naming
> convention is just a suggestion."
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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