[OSM-dev] XML Schema

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Hugh Barnes wrote:
> Oh, that's insane. Such a powerful tool. You're stating the opposite of 
> obvious … obvious would be that you use the DTD to validate against. What kind 
> of validation exists?

None that I am aware of. Frankly, I'm not even sad about this, I believe 
  any kind of server-side validation would be

* a lot of work to implement
* slowing down API requests
* hard to maintain

while any kind of client-side validation would just lead to "hey, the 
server issues invalid XML!" - "then fix your definition of 'invalid'".

But you're welcome to support patches to the rails API and the clients 
and promise to keep them up to date ;-)

Bye
Frederik