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wjwwood committed Mar 21, 2017
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- must start with a forward slash (`/`), i.e. they must be absolute
- must not contain tilde (`~`) or curly braces (`{}`)

Note that expanded substitutions must result in a valid name and comply to the name contraints stated in the previous section.
Note that expanded substitutions must result in a valid name and comply to the name constraints stated in the previous section.
An example of an invalid substitution would be `{sub}/foo` and replace `{sub}` with a numeric value, which thus leads to a topic starting with a numeric character.

### Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
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- must not be empty, e.g. the name `//bar` is not allowed

- rationale: it removes the chance for accidental `//` from concatenation and thereore the need to collapse `//` to `/`
- rationale: it removes the chance for accidental `//` from concatenation and therefore the need to collapse `//` to `/`

- may use alphanumeric characters (`[0-9|a-z|A-Z]`), underscores (`_`), and/or balanced curly braces (`{}`)

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The length of the DDS topic must not exceed 256 characters.
The actual length of a partition field may be limited to 256 characters, however this varies drastically depending on the vendor.
RTI Connext does not allow a creation of a publisher/subscription with a partition length of 248 characters, whereas FastRTPS does not have any limitation in length.
Please bare in mind, that the length of the partition gets further diminished due to the introduction of a ros specific prefix.
Please bare in mind, that the length of the partition gets further diminished due to the introduction of a ROS specific prefix.
The actual length of a ROS Topic, including the namespace hierarchy and the base name of the topic, may thus be varying in length as well.
Yet, the base name token must not exceed the length of 256 characters as this is getting mapped direclty as the DDS topic.
Yet, the base name token must not exceed the length of 256 characters as this is getting mapped directly as the DDS topic.

### Communicating with Non-ROS Topics

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