The downloaded file is not XML. So I'm guessing I need some sort of extraction mechanism. How do I get at the XML?<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 03/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joerg Ostertag</b> <<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@ostertag.name">openstreetmap@ostertag.name</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Monday 03 April 2006 01:14, Colin Mackay wrote:<br>> What format is the data in?<br><br>It looks like XML, just the same as the server would answer if it'd be
<br>downloaded regularly.<br><br>For a small statistic ;-)<br><br>it contains:<br>OSM Nodes: 516505<br>OSM Segments: 510514<br>OSM Ways: 1805<br><br>> Also, If you are going to do this monthly you might want to consider
<br>> setting up a bit torrent for it because it will probably kill your<br>> bandwidth if enough people are interested in it.<br><br>Shouldn't be too much of a problem. I'm just setting up the first mirror of<br>the Data:
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