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[Robin Cover]

FYI to list When drafting the OASIS Naming Guidelines, I initially included several detailed rules (which could have been expressed via regex) to prohibit pathological filenames and directory names: reviewers urged me to omit some of these rules, saying "surely users would not do something like THAT..." or "you can't legislate against everything funky..." Here's pathological (in my book, YMMV), though the fact that it's a proposed filename template has some bearing on the matter. If users adopted the template pattern, corresponding filenames would have four SPACE characters, which are forbidden in the OASIS Library. The message is posted here: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-sidsc/200805/msg00011.html and the filename is: DITA SIDSC __-__-__ teleconference minutes.dita Actually, the character sequence 'UNDERSCORE UNDERSCORE HYPHEN UNDERSCORE UNDERSCORE HYPHEN UNDERSCORE' gets trapped in one of the rules I managed to include in the Naming Guidelines: "Filenames and directory names should not contain multiple consecutive punctuation characters" Cheers, Robin PS For other pathological URIs (I stopped collecting Kavi examples), see http://xml.coverpages.org/ADMIN/blanks/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Cover OASIS, Chief Information Architect Editor, Cover Pages and XML Daily Newslink http://xml.coverpages.org/