[OSM-dev] Reimplementation of the GPX importer

[Daniel Silverstone]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 18:00 -0600, Tom Hughes wrote:
> >> gpx.c:
> >> - The old parser used to accept gz, bzip2, tar, zip etc, is this still
> >> supported?
> > I couldn't find this in gpx.rb -- is it some magical behaviour of the
> > ruby libxml binding?!
> The xml_file method in the trace model takes care of doing any unpacking 
> and returning an uncompressed file which the daemon then processes.

Yes, I found this last night and experimented with concatenating GPX
files. Unfortunately Expat explodes horribly. However I have managed to
come up with a possible pipeline. Unfortunately it effectively involves
running a shell script on each file before processing. I don't think
this is necessarily a bad thing, but if I can avoid shelling out, I'd
rather.

If anyone knows how to tell expat to accept that a stream may be the
concatenation of multiple documents, I'd appreciate the hints.

D.

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