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

[Dave Stubbs]

>
> 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?
>


It's only parsing the time value that's going to take any cpu power
and I think you already removed that :-)

I don't think it is used for anything, but a doc comment wouldn't go
amiss to tell everyone what it isn't doing, in case they try to reuse
it in the future.

Dave