[OSM-dev] Invalid XML?

[Stefan de Konink]

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Karl Newman schreef:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Stefan de Konink <skinkie at xs4all.nl
> <mailto:skinkie at xs4all.nl>> wrote:
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>     http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/node/169532897
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>     Looking at the last tag... that looks pretty wrong to me. And don't go
>     fixing the tag... if the database outputs this, it is pretty b0rked.
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> 
>     Stefan
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> 
> So everyone can see what you're talking about:
> 
> <osm version="0.5" generator="OpenStreetMap server">
> <node id="169532897" lat="50.9521054" lon="4.3022661" user="Polyglot"
> visible="true" timestamp="2007-12-14T22:53:31+00:00">
> <tag k="created_by" v="JOSM"/>
> <tag k="highway" v="bus_stop"/>
> <tag k="name" v="Driesstraat\"/>
> </node>
> </osm>
> 
> Are you concerned about the backslash in the name? I'm not an XML expert
> but I don't think that's a problem because it's inside a quoted
> attribute value. At least Firefox and my XML-aware text editor don't
> complain about it.

#xml is mentionted that this is indeed valid too... and I need to
implement an escaping sequence myself to prevent the quoting in the
target, that does respect \ chars. (I thought it was invalid because
some other XML page mentioned to use \\)

Since this clearly looks like a typo (trying to hit enter) one my ask if
a client should check for this...



Stefan
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