Hello Dennis
> It should be noted however that dot in particular
> causes problems for accessing remote datasets
> through DAP because the dot character is used
> in DAP constraints to specify fields inside
> DAP Sequences or Structures or Grids.
I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with DAP. Do you mean that DAP
already treats dots in property names (as opposed to property values)
in a special manner?
> The problem you have is that no matter what
> choice of character(s) you make, someone may
> use the characters in a different way.
> This means that whatever choice you make, you need
> to enshrine it in a standard somewhere so that at
> least there is a chance that people will avoid it.
Indeed.
> Personally, I would think that a two character sequence
> is least likely to be used by others, but two underscores
> is probably not a good choice. I would think something
> like _at_@ ++ might be a better choice.
Or '..', perhaps!
All the best,
David
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David Hassell
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Received on Tue Jan 29 2013 - 02:12:57 GMT
