[jQuery] Jquery Validate access form elements whose name contains a period or special chars [validate]

[phil]

Hi

In my validator rules and messages I'm trying to figure out how to
specify a field name that contains a period.

rules: {
                account.usernameEmail: {
                                required: true,
                                email: true
                }
           }

This will throw an error right away:
missing : after property id
[Break on this error] account.usernameEmail: { \n

Also, does the name and id of a form element have to be the same for
this plugin to work?

I simply can not remove the "." in the field name as it is used on the
server for form backing object validation (via spring mvc).

Thoughts?

Thanks