[OSM-dev] XML Schema

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Brett Henderson <brett at bretth.com> wrote:
> I've been meaning to create a schema for a long time but never got
> around to it, it didn't seem like a very high priority.  If people hate
> Schema that much then I guess a DTD should be created for change files
> instead.  One nice thing about creating a schema is that it becomes
> easier to use code generation tools for xml serialisation and
> deserialisation.

I made these a while back:

http://www.nabble.com/Some-DTDs-for-common-file-formats-p12583097.html

There were useful back then, probably useful now.

As for validating output, this is what regression/unit testing is for,
something I'm certain the developers spent a lot of time on in the
weekend :)

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/