[OSM-dev] UID and username in API0.6

[Shaun McDonald]

On 5 Jan 2009, at 14:18, Dave Stubbs wrote:

> 2009/1/5  <marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com>:
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6&section=14#Reliably_identifying_users
>>
>> Do uid and username have to be present for uploads?
>> I am currently specifying a file-format not primarily
>> intended for editors and would like to know if I can
>> loose this info and still allow for small changes to
>> be uploaded.
>>
>
>
> The API will ignore timestamp/uid/username if present, and use the
> current time and logged in user. The version number of the object is
> needed to verify you're editing the latest edit.
>
> So yes, you can safely drop the user (and timestamps), and as long as
> you keep the version number it can still be used to make edits.
>

I'd also like to make the code so that it doesn't even parse the  
visible/timestamp/uid/username, thus reducing the processing required  
when editing the data. Is there likely to be a problem caused by doing  
this? Is the xml parsing code used for anything other than the data  
editing in the api?

Shaun