Re[2]: [cgmo-webcgm] QUESTION: ban 0x09, 0x0A, 0x0D from 'name' ?

[Benoit Bezaire <benoit@itedo.com>]

Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 11:58:18 AM, Lofton wrote:

LH> At 09:32 AM 10/4/2005 -0600, Robert Orosz wrote:
LH> Benoit and Lofton,

LH> As I point out in my Chapter 3 review, T.14.5 prohibits the entire set ofC0
LH> control characters except for NUL.  So, the decision has alreadybeen made.
LH> Section 3.1.1.3 needs some rewriting to clarify this.


LH> T.14.5 says:
LH> "Format effectors and ESC: Permitted Yes; Prohibited No;
LH> Other C0 control codes (except NUL and ISO/IEC 2022 switching) areprohibited."

LH> Since these bad guys are format effectors, they are allowed by thePPF.

LH> Here is another thought that has occurred to me during this
LH> dialog. The 1.0 repertoire would allow, in the value of a 'name'
LH> ApsAttr, forexample, the character "<".  E.g., a valid value
LH> wouldbe:
LH> "my <special> group"

LH> You can see where I'm going I guess:  XCF.  This would
LH> beproblematic as an XML attribute value, right?  (So can it be
LH> handled by CDATA section within the XML attribute?  I'm not
LH> familiar enough to know the answer to that.)
An XML parser would say that the document is not well formed, you'll
never be able to get beyond this point.

LH> Any case, I wonder if a warning note would be useful in
LH> 3.1.1.3, about keeping in mind "all applicable XML rules", if the
LH> WebCGM content might ever be the companion of an XCF.  Thoughts?
I guess a warning wouldn't hurt (probably is a good idea). It should
probably link to the XML specification.

-- 
 Benoit   mailto:benoit@itedo.com

LH> -Lofton.

LH> -----Original Message-----
LH> From: Benoit Bezaire[mailto:benoit@itedo.com]
LH> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 8:50 AM
LH> To: cgmo-webcgm@lists.oasis-open.org
LH> Subject: Re: [cgmo-webcgm] QUESTION: ban 0x09, 0x0A, 0x0D from 'name'?


LH> Did we get more feedback on this? was it discussed at thetelecon?

LH> This is essentially removing any whitespaces from 'name'. They would
LH> become deprecated?