On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Matt Amos <[email protected]> wrote: >> sort of. the "spec" is just that the API talks XML, and we aim not to >> have any restrictions beyond that. so anything that's a valid XML >> character (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets) should be allowed >> in OSM. > > [snip] > >> yes, we should probably add a rails validation to stop people using >> those chars in their username (who needs a tab in their username >> anyway?) > > I think I'm misreading something :). How are these statements not > contradictory?
Because users are created by submitting a HTML form via a HTTP POST request, not via the API which receives requests in XML format. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
