[OSM-dev] Changeset files (was Removing Minutely and Hourly Changesets)

[Jon Burgess]

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 01:08 -0500, Anthony wrote:
> Cool.  If anyone familiar with the planet dumper tool is listening...
> 
> In
> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/planet.osm/C/output_osm.c
> 
> } else if ((*in >= 0) && (*in < 32)) {
>             escape_tmp[len] = '?';
>             len++;
> 
> should be something like
> 
> } else if ((*in > 0) && (*in < 32)) {
>             len+=sprintf(&escape_tmp[len], "&#%d;", *in);
> 
> "Something like" as in I haven't even checked if that compiles :).

Most of the control characters are not allowed in a valid XML file. It
makes no difference whether they are present as an ASCII character or as
the equivalent entity.

$ echo "<foo>
</foo>" | xmllint -format -
-:1: parser error : xmlParseCharRef: invalid xmlChar value 1
<foo>
</foo>


> Of course, another thing to consider is that 1024 bytes isn't enough
> for the truly pathological cases.  I think you need like 1531 or
> something to handle that.  Fixing this might be enough to properly
> process the current db, though.

How do you arrive at the 1531 number?

> Any chance of adding num_changes?

The current output reflects the same information as the /changeset API
call. Do you think it should be there too?

	Jon