On 12 Feb 2008, at 01:23, Frederik Ramm wrote: > 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 > ;-)
Yes. Sorry. have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev

