JOSM throws an XML parsing error when opening an OSM file with a <bound> element

[avarab@…]

An OSM file produced by osmosis that begins like this can't be opened by JOSM:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<osm version="0.6" generator="Osmosis 0.31.1">
  <bound box="47.90714,7.67395,48.07441,8.01453" origin="http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6"/>
  <node [...]

If you remove the <bound> element it loads just fine.

JOSM should just ignore the <bound> element and continue parsing.

[Gubaer]

(In [2092]) see #3446: JOSM throws an XML parsing error when opening an OSM file with a <bound> element

[Gubaer]

Not sure whether this is really a defect. I'd prefer JOSM to be more restrictive about the data it loads and <bounds> is not a "standard" OSM tag. On the other hand, there are probably no "standard" OSM tags. There's not formal spec for an OSM file or is there?

Instead of throwing an exception JOSM now logs a warning.

[framm]

Replying to Gubaer:

Not sure whether this is really a defect. I'd prefer JOSM to be more restrictive about the data it loads and <bounds> is not a "standard" OSM tag. On the other hand, there are probably no "standard" OSM tags. There's not formal spec for an OSM file or is there?

Instead of throwing an exception JOSM now logs a warning.

I would say that something which is written out by Osmosis comes pretty close to being a "standard" tag. Whenever someone cuts an area out of an OSM file it will have this tag.

[Gubaer]

That's why JOSM logs a warning: the tag is there but JOSM doesn't process it.