[OSM-dev] usernames, keys, and values

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Matt Amos <zerebubuth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> sort of. the "spec" is just that the API talks XML, and we aim not to
>> have any restrictions beyond that. so anything that's a valid XML
>> character (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets) should be allowed
>> in OSM.
>
> [snip]
>
>> yes, we should probably add a rails validation to stop people using
>> those chars in their username (who needs a tab in their username
>> anyway?)
>
> I think I'm misreading something :).  How are these statements not
> contradictory?

Because users are created by submitting a HTML form via a HTTP POST
request, not via the API which receives requests in XML format.