On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Hugh Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed on the todo list for the Protocol v.0.6 > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6#Pending), > the wiki lists "XML Schema". > > I thought I saw a page some time ago which had a DTD in it, and someone > suggested we use RELAX NG instead to define the content model. Can't find it > now. That person was right. We'll have a lot more joy with it. It's also a > good idea to add attribute constraints etc (like the nonsensical no repeated > tag keys constraint) with Schematron. > > Does this still need doing? (I'll help) Do we literally intend to use XML > Schema (count me out if so) or do we mean just a schema for the XML (small > "s") ? > > And in any case, can we please define XML namespaces for any schemas we > create, > if we haven't already? It can become very difficult working with documents > without them. > > And I take it the API itself (the interface) is almost finalised and it's too > late for comments? If not, where do you prefer them? Given recent discussions, > I guess the list.
It's never too late for comments (things can always go into the next version) - but if you've got some, it's a good idea to make them now. Hopefully by the end of the weekend we'll have the 0.6 API sanity-checked and "frozen" to some extent, since we need to give everyone plenty of time without any further changes. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
