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

[Stefan de Konink]

Shaun McDonald wrote:
> 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?

I think if you have the attribute sequence in such way that it puts 
those on the end, stream parsers are most likely to improve speed. 
Because they can skip to the > after all arguments were set.


Stefan