[Openstreetmap] Re: [Openstreetmap-dev] OSM's Schema - moving it forwards.

[Lester Caine]

Ben Gimpert wrote:

> <rant> Though I'm certainly on my soapbox now, I believe XML will go
> down in history as one of the greatest failures of IT in the 1990's. It
> doesn't even achieve its own aims, and facilitates a *huge* amount of
> pseudo-work in the form of standards wanking. </rant>
> 
> Open and public standards are vital to everything, but "open and public"
> does not equal XML.

I'll second that
I asked the eGov people how we were expected to store XML at our servers 
and got the responce "How ever you want we are not interested in that". 
XML just provides a common transfer format - until you include all of 
the possible formats in one schema - then it becomes a bit of a joke ;)
http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/gdsc/schemas/bs7666-v2-0.xsd
Is just part of the schema I am supposed to use to supply an address 
under eGov
Internally I store <House No><Postcode> :)

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