[jdom-interest] verfier.checkNamespaceURI()

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 10:52 AM -0700 6/25/02, Jason Hunter wrote:
>A patch would be Ok.  I think we shouldn't exclude "unwise" characters.
>
>Seems like "> 127" or "< 33" are bad ranges, as well as the chars < > ".
>

I'll double check, but my recollection is that the unwise characters 
are *forbidden* (not merely deprecated) in URIs. The reason they are 
forbidden is because it was considered "unwise" to allow them since 
various gateways and file systems might have trouble with them.
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