On 10-08-2013 10:54, Jiang BIAN wrote:
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Denny Vrandečić
<denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de <mailto:denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de>> wrote:
Hi Anthony,
that's the internal data structure, and this is bound to change
without notice. I am sorry if this caused trouble.
If this is a common concern, we will start documenting and
announcing those changes. It really should only concern the people
processing the XML dumps.
I am one of the people processing the XML dumps, and I don't think it is
a big deal. But I have had to change my parser many times to be able to
parse new dumps because of changes in the format (in most cases, but not
always, because of new features),
I just adapt to the changes without fuss, but if the format was
documented I could file bug reports whenever the format is deviating
from the documentation which might be helpful to the developers.
(BTW, the time values seems to be OK again, after many syntax errors in
the beginning. But the coordinate values have some strange (probably
erroneous?) variations: Values where the precision and/or globe is given
as "null", and values where the globe is given as the string "earth"
instead of an entity).
About the inconsistency in the dump file, is there any bug entry created
for this?
(I can create one, if anyone can point me the proper place to do that).
Not for my sake. I adapted to two entity formats in the dumps
immediately when the new format started to appear.
Best regards,
- Byrial
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