[OSM-dev] Escaping special characters when writing tags in OSM files with osm-subset.pl & write.pm

[Dean Earley]

Jon Burgess wrote:
> I've found that both osm-subset.pl and Geo::OSM::Write fail to escape
> characters like " & ' in tags leading to problem when trying to parse
> the OSM that they write. 
> 
> The attached patches made them work for me although I still seem to be
> seeing some UTF-8 related issues (though UTF8sanitizer fixes these up).
> Does anyone know if there is a better way to be generating valid XML?
> 
> The patch to osm-subset.pl also fixes it to work with .bz2 compressed
> planet.osm files.

 From memory, & SHOULDN'T be escaped in XML files.
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