[OSM-dev] osmarender patch - Better support for non-english/multi-lang areas

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 17:37:22 GMT 2009


On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Tal <tal.bav at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2. Support making one tag be exactly the same as another tag using the
> following construct:
>         name:he="hebrew text"
>         name="$(name:he)"
>   This is not full variable expansion, just the ability for tag A to
> say: i have exactly the same value as tag B.

No, no, no. A thousand times no. Please reconsider this, and maybe
invent a new tag

Name should be a string only a string and nothing but a string, not
name = (string|processing directive). We've had this discussion before
regarding name=__noname__ and the conclusion was to NOT DO THINGS LIKE
THIS.

Cheers,
Andy




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