[OSM-talk] Xml design

[scott]

bvh wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 01:38:56PM +0000, scott wrote:
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>>An XSD will allow you to specify the set of possible attributes and also 
>>the set of possible values for an attribute (or element).  This set of 
>>values can be used to populate the drop down, ensuring that only valid 
>>values are entered.  So we can have a drop down (or some autocomplete 
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>There is no agreement (yet?) on possible values for different tags.
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I don't know if there is an agreement.  If there is, it is not enforced.

>>Obviously you could create these drop downs now, but by basing them on 
>>an XSD they would be data driven.
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>Since there is no agreement on the data, it seems an XSD is
>not possible (for now).
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I think the 2 things go hand in hand.  The  agreement could, and 
probably should, be specified by the XSD. 

>cu bart
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