[OSM-talk] planet.dump

[David Sheldon]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:33:02AM +0200, Jonas Svensson wrote:
> I think I have found the error. Some lines contain the text "B&B" which
> should be "B&B". Assuming we are still using the html-encoding as in
> previous dumps. Wouldn't UTF-8 be better?

The dump is supposed to be in XML. In XML '&' MUST ALWAYS be encoded as
'&'. I believe the dump should be in UTF-8 anyway, but it is
probably safest to encode any non-ascii characters using the appropriate
entity references. For exampl £ rather than a (British) pound sign.
The HTML £ is not valid XML unless you elsewhere define the entity
"pound".
 

David
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