[Mapcss] MapCSS and Overpass API
Andrew Shadura
bugzilla at tut.by
Sat Nov 26 15:40:06 GMT 2011
Hello,
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:37:03 +0100
Roland Olbricht <roland.olbricht at gmx.de> wrote:
> - Changing literals to allow all kinds of special characters if they
> are written in quotation marks, e.g. [name="With white space [and
> brackets]"], according to the XML rules.
As for the first part of the sentence, that's allowed already. As for
the second, I don't quite understand what do you mean when you say 'XML
rules'.
> - Some extensions for the declarations, mostly { xml ...; } to output
> found data as XML.
But MapCSS wasn't meant to be used for that, no?
> - The permission to arbitrarily remove or add white space unless
> required to distinguish two literals.
Isn't that allowed already?
> The options I see would be to
I'd prefer:
> - Not do this at all and make a deliberate distinct query language.
I think of something like XPath, so
> /api/interpreter?rel[ref="CE 61"]way node{xml body;}
would be something like:
xml(/rel[ref="CE 61"]/way/node)
--
WBR, Andrew
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