On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That does not work, the character is invalid even when encoded as an > entity: > > $ xmllint -noout tmp.osm > tmp.osm:4: parser error : xmlParseCharRef: invalid xmlChar value 27 > <tag k="type" v=""/>
Wow. Right. I looked up the XML definition and got: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets In particular: Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] So *any* character <32 that's not a tab, newline or linefeed is illegal in XML, not matter how you encode it. Since we have decided that XML is the standard format for transport of OSM data, this means we must ban those character now and forever in all layers and complain loudly to any program generating such characters... So brett, looks like you were doing the right thing after all, but the failure mode could have been clearer. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
