The discussion at what is the difference between wgs84 and epsg4326? Shows that 4326 is just the epsg identifier of wgs84. Wikipedia entries for google maps and openstreetmap shows that they รขโ‚ฌยฆ

If i choose to download openstreetmap xml data i can't open the osm. xml files using qgis (even using the qgis-osm toolbar import function). I wonder if i'm missing a more obvious way of dealing รขโ‚ฌยฆ