Frederik Ramm skrev: > Hi, > >>> I just have finished a converter of OSM xml format to GML and I >>> *BOLDLY*suggest to constrain the allowed characters of tags (= >>> key-names) to the >>> following XML related set: >>> 'aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ_' in order to retain >>> reusability. > > There is a reason why our data format has > > <tag k="keyname" v="value" /> > > instead of > > <keyname>value</keyname> > > and that reason is allowing non-XML stuff in the key names. Or at > least it seems like that could have been a reason. I hope nobody's > going to come forward and tell me it was just decided over a few beers > ;-)
Since it was defined by brits, you can bet your sweet patootie that beers MUST have been involved... ;) > But I'd agree with Dutch, Damn, there goes my perfect record.. ;) Dutch _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
