On 17 Nov 2008, at 21:46, Hugh Barnes wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2008, 05:42:18, Shaun McDonald did write: >> Due to the way that the XML parsing is done, if no role attribute is >> supplied in the xml, then it will fail. Supplying role="" is what you >> are required to do. > > Sorry - I'm just curious. Is this in OSM code or are you making a > generic > statement? If the former, it's a bug (if we're having to work around > it) or > it's just an unintuitive content model. If the latter, it doesn't > ring true > for any parsing I've done elsewhere. >
It is whenever the XML that you give to the API is parsed into a set of model objects that is used by the server for further processing. See the following method (def self.from_xml_node(pt, create=false)): http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port_branches/api06/app/models/relation.rb#L32 If any of the parts of the XML there are missing, when they are expected, then it will just fail with an error, probably a 500 error. Shaun _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
