Matthew,
the "stable" version of xowiki is in the oacs-5-3 branch, the current development branch is in cvs head, and it changes typically several times a week. So, the head version is a moving target.
The xowiki-demo examples mentioned above are written for the version in oacs-5-3. however, i have recently updated alice to the head version, and fixed the naming problem you discovered. The updated version is in CVS head.
best regards
-gustaf neumann
