[josm-dev] Tasks for all of you

[Russ Nelson]

Dirk Stöcker writes:
 > http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/1712
 > Incomplete ways are discarded without notice

What should be done?  Throw an exception immediately?  Load the way
anyway, ignoring missing points, and throw an exception after
everything has been loaded?

In theory, the semantics of this file are as unacceptable as if it
wasn't an XML file at all, and so the "proper" thing to do is throw
away the entire contents of the file.

In practice, this file may contain valuable data and the best thing to
do is select all the ways in error and report an error message.

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