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Apostrophes in XML output should be replaced with ' entities #4598

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments
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Reporter: Zverik
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 7.20pm, Thursday, 27th September 2012]

In all of API responses, planet dumps and replication diffs. Using ' symbol in XML is allowed, but is considered a bad practice, and can cause some parsers to miss parts of tag parameter values.

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Author: Zverik
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.51am, Sunday, 30th September 2012]

Example: http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/13265251

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Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.57am, Sunday, 30th September 2012]

This is not a bug - when an attribute value is in double quotes a single quote does not need to be escaped and vice versa.

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