2009/3/12 Eddy Petrișor <[email protected]>: > Tal a scris: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Tal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 2. Support making one tag be exactly the same as another tag using the >>>> following construct: >>>> name:he="hebrew text" >>>> name="$(name:he)" >>>> This is not full variable expansion, just the ability for tag A to >>>> say: i have exactly the same value as tag B. >>> No, no, no. A thousand times no. Please reconsider this, and maybe >>> invent a new tag >>> >>> Name should be a string only a string and nothing but a string, not >>> name = (string|processing directive). We've had this discussion before >>> regarding name=__noname__ and the conclusion was to NOT DO THINGS LIKE >>> THIS. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Andy >>> >> As I said before, I'm not keen on the $(xx) construct. >> I immediately said I was ok with the new-tag solution, but it seemed >> to me that more people in multi lingual areas (including myself) find >> the $(xxx) version nicer, so that what I did. >> >> I'll be perfectly content with a new tag, no name tag, and patched >> renderers. And if that solution can be agreed upon I have no problem >> to modify the patch. >> >> Unfortunately I did not follow the __noname__ discussion, so I will >> not question your conclusion. But I suspect that here the situation is >> a little different, since the "name" tags in a multi language parts of >> the maps are already broken, and should probably go away. > > Why don't you run a robot on the Israel planet that automatically > adds/updates the name tag so it matches the name:he tag? >
Because: a) he doesn't know what language "name" is actually in b) because bots are evil Dave _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
