[OSM-talk] OsmXapi and semicolons

[Kai Krueger]

Hi

I was using OsmXapi today to try and get a set of bus_stops however 
there seem to be inconsistencies with the encoding of some of the 
semicolons.

for example calling  wget 
http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/node[highway=bus_stop][bbox=-1,51.51,0,51.52] 
I get the following xml from xapi for node 281455008:

<node id='281455008' lat='51.5167833' lon='-0.1279817' user='amm' 
osmxapi:users='smsm1,amm' timestamp='2008-10-07T23:07:46Z'>
     <tag k='bus_number' 
v='1\s8\s25\s98\s242\sN1\sN8\sN68\sN98\sN171\sN207'/>
     <tag k='highway' v='bus_stop'/>
     <tag k='name' v='New Oxford Street'/>
   </node>

whereas the main api gives back the correct data

<osm version="0.5" generator="OpenStreetMap server">
<node id="281455008" lat="51.5167833" lon="-0.1279817" user="amm" 
visible="true" timestamp="2008-10-08T00:07:46+01:00">
<tag k="bus_number" v="1;8;25;98;242;N1;N8;N68;N98;N171;N207"/>
<tag k="highway" v="bus_stop"/>
<tag k="name" v="New Oxford Street"/>
</node>
</osm>


However not all of the semicolons are replaced by \s for example

  <node id='265255763' lat='51.5105981' lon='-0.2886720' user='Harry 
Wood' osmxapi:users='Harry Wood' timestamp='2008-05-17T17:04:34Z'>
     <tag k='highway' v='bus_stop'/>
     <tag k='ref' v='ET'/>
     <tag k='routes' v='207;427;607;N7;N207'/>
   </node>

looks correct.

I am not sure, but potentially the behaviour changed mid September?

Is this a known issue?

thanks,

Kai