On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:58:22AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Invalid XML? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Karl Newman schreef: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Stefan de Konink <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/node/169532897 > > > > > > Looking at the last tag... that looks pretty wrong to me. And don't go > > fixing the tag... if the database outputs this, it is pretty b0rked. > > > > > > > > Stefan > > > > > > So everyone can see what you're talking about: > > > > <osm version="0.5" generator="OpenStreetMap server"> > > <node id="169532897" lat="50.9521054" lon="4.3022661" user="Polyglot" > > visible="true" timestamp="2007-12-14T22:53:31+00:00"> > > <tag k="created_by" v="JOSM"/> > > <tag k="highway" v="bus_stop"/> > > <tag k="name" v="Driesstraat\"/> > > </node> > > </osm> > > > > Are you concerned about the backslash in the name? I'm not an XML expert > > but I don't think that's a problem because it's inside a quoted > > attribute value. At least Firefox and my XML-aware text editor don't > > complain about it. > > #xml is mentionted that this is indeed valid too... and I need to > implement an escaping sequence myself to prevent the quoting in the > target, that does respect \ chars. (I thought it was invalid because > some other XML page mentioned to use \\) > > Since this clearly looks like a typo (trying to hit enter) one my ask if > a client should check for this...
A couple of days back i started a thread about this kind of problems.
Its not that the xml is broken afterwards but people could start putting
bad things into the database by closing a tag and reopening a new one.
Its the database/api which needs to refuse to put something like this
into the database.
Flo
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