[MOBY-dev] [moby] Articlenames

[Paul Gordon]

No complaints here! Both ampersand and blackslash seem like they could 
have especially nasty consequences in downstream code...
> Hi all, 
>
> If you have any objections to this, please flame me, not Eddie.  He
> asked me, and I told him to go ahead without properly thinking about it;
> however now I am having second thoughts.  MOBY Central is still using
> the old codebase, so no worries there.
>
> For data-types, it is clear that we have to follow the rules for data-
> typing that XML places on us.  Since data-types in MOBY become XML tags,
> those rules are pretty restrictive, but generally speaking there aren't
> any troublesome ones in the registry right now.  We do have a problem
> with some of the Gene Ontology-created namespaces having a second ":"
> character in them, but I am going to talk to Midori about this ASAP!
> Hopefully we can get rid of those. 
>
> However, for articleNames, the XML rules are a lot looser, since these
> are represented in MOBY as XML attribute values.  There are already some
> articleNames in the object ontology that contain spaces, and those don't
> particularly concern me (are they causing problems for anyone else?);
> however other unusual characters might cause problems if the code isn't
> expecting them.
>
> It would be a change in the API if we were to impose limitations on the
> articleName character-set at this point, but it wont affect most (any?)
> existing objects or services.  Does anyone object to putting a
> restriction on the characters that can be used in articleNames?  Either
> way, we should probably make an explicit note in the API about what
> characters are acceptable, even if we simply say "any".
>
> M
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 15:22 -0700, Edward Kawas wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just committed code that prohibits the registry from registering services
>> and datatypes that have articlenames that contain spaces or special characters
>> `~!@#$%^&*()=+;:'"<,>./?\|.
>>
>> I did this because having those characters prohibits us from expressing the
>> Datatype ontology in OWL.
>>
>> There are a few offending datatypes that currently make use of these characters
>> and hopefully I can track down the people who registered them and ask them to
>> re-register the datatypes.
>>
>> If you know offhand that you may have done this, could you fix your datatypes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eddie
>>
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