[OSM-dev] API 0.5 is on the way
Martijn van Oosterhout
kleptog at gmail.com
Sat Sep 15 19:24:58 BST 2007
On 9/15/07, michael J <michael_j at email.de> wrote:
> Independently from the issue above I have below an example, how the DTD
> could be extended to cover the complete structure of the payload too.
> It also help defining the "Advanced Object Access Methods".
I don't understand. The output is described here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5#Returned_XML_data
You don't need to introduce any more elements since the osm tag can
already contain arbitrarily many of them.
> However, if used it has the draw back that we would need to introduce
> another child element node below the OSM root node. As it would require
> code changes, I am interested to hear if such code changes are useful
> enough to get into the code basis.
If you mean to have an actual description of each specific result. ie.
that the get_nodes requests can only produce nodes, then I don't see
the point. Adding new elements would cause a lot of pain for no gain.
Every program would have to be taught to ignore these new elements. We
have a single DTD that describes all the possible results, I think
that's good enough.
Note: it's possible that more advanced structure languages, like XML
Schema or RelaxNG could do all this without the hassle, but I think
DTDs are too limited for this.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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