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Why cannot use slash(/) in activity name
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/rebody">HuiSheng Xu</a> in <i>jBPM Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/545240#545240">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi guys,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>It is totally weird, that jPDL didn't allow using slash(/) in activity name.  I searched though XML specification and there is no limitation for this.  And, there is no such limitation for transition name, only for activity name.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Now our customer's process need put a slash(/) in an activity name,  I went to do some demostration, Every designing stuff are all right. Then when I try to deploy the process, it tell me the process is invalid.  It is horrible.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So I really want to know, is there any reason that we shouldn't use slash(/) in activity name?  Because if this rule is not necessary, I didn't want to tell our customers that they must change their process to remove all of slash(/).</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Here is the validation in JpdlBinding.java</p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java"><font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>void</b></font> parseName(Element element, ActivityImpl activity, Parse parse) <font color="navy">{</font>
    String name = XmlUtil.attribute(element, <font color="red">"name"</font>, isNameRequired(), parse);
   
    <font color="navy"><b>if</b></font> (name!=<font color="navy"><b>null</b></font>) <font color="navy">{</font>
      <font color="darkgreen">// basic name validation</font>
      <font color="navy"><b>if</b></font> (<font color="red">""</font>.equals(name)) <font color="navy">{</font>
        parse.addProblem(XmlUtil.errorMessageAttribute(element, <font color="red">"name"</font>, name, <font color="red">"is empty"</font>), element);
      <font color="navy">}</font> <font color="navy"><b>else</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>if</b></font> (name.indexOf(<font color="navy">'/'</font>)!=-1) <font color="navy">{</font>
        parse.addProblem(XmlUtil.errorMessageAttribute(element, <font color="red">"name"</font>, name, <font color="red">"contains slash (/)"</font>), element);
      <font color="navy">}</font>
      activity.setName(name);
    <font color="navy">}</font>
  <font color="navy">}</font>
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