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Why do we have lots of restrictive validation rules?

To: DHIS 2 developers <dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:35:08 +0200

For datasets, I get the following validation error for the name of the dataset:
"The first character must be alphabetical."

Why do need to be this restrictive? I see no reason we cannot start
the name with a number. Could someone explain all these seemingly
artificial limitations? And list all of them clearly in the
documentation?

KNut