[sorry, Frederik, this was meant for the list…] On Saturday 08 November 2008, 21:17:44, Frederik Ramm did write: > Hi, > > Hugh Barnes wrote: > > 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. > > All this is nice and might come in helpful for people starting with OSM, > but it has to be remembered that currently anything you write could be > in human language for all we care since neither servers nor clients > actually use any kind of validation against any kind of coded schema. > > So whatever you write is really only aimed at human beings wanting to > understand the format/structure; the servers and clients might get out > of sync with that at any time without anyone noticing. > > Sorry if this was only stating the obvious but I have met people in the > past who said, in disbelief, "but how can the server issue THIS when the > DTD says THAT"? And I said, well, the server doesn't even know the DTD. >
Oh, that's insane. Such a powerful tool. You're stating the opposite of obvious … obvious would be that you use the DTD to validate against. What kind of validation exists? Cheers _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
