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

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Nick Whitelegg]
> Some interesting and valid points but I have to reply on this one
> :-) I've always understood one of the key advantages of XML to be
> the fact that a human can read it, make sense of it and edit it in a
> text editor if need be. I write XML directly all the time (XHTML).

That is not a property of XML.  It is perfectly valid XML if you use
non-sensible or misleading tags, and it is even valid XML to use any
non-space UTF-8 character as a tag.  Can you make sense of Japanese?
I can't. :)

The fact that most people write XML in a "sensible" way does not tell
about the properties of XML.  I can write text files in a human
readable way too, but that does not make human readable and sensibly
formatted a property of text files. :)