On Feb 12, 2008 1:27 PM, Stefan Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the pointer o XML, Dave. > > UTF-8 is a good choice for content, but this is about *keys* (i.e. > attributes). > Keys correspond to XML elements which are defind as names [1](!) > ... which nicely fits the definition I proposed.
Well, my point was that your proposal was a very small subset of what XML allows for a Name, so no, it really doesn't nicely fit. Just to clarify that, XML allows pretty much anything except whitespace and most punctuation to be part of a Name. This includes just about any UTF-8 character you wish to bring up. There are lots of other rules and limitations of course, but that's what the grammar on that page is there to describe, so I won't try to summarise it further here. There's nothing special about an OSM key. It's the same as an OSM value contents-wise and should really be treated as such by any application processing it. This actually makes a lot of programming easier, not harder. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
