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xmp handling faults (III) - AKA: policing XMP namespaces

Added by Jens Mueller about 10 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:
Assigned
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Robin Mills
Category:
metadata
Target version:
0.28
Start date:
30 Aug 2011
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:

Description

This entry is for seperating xmp handling bugs from xmpsdk upgrade for easier tracking.

Steps to reproduce:

  • Take some image, clear all metadata with 'exiv2 -d a'
  • Set XMP Basic Schema property 'Label' to 'Orange' with 'exiv2 -M "set Xmp.xmp.Label Orange"'
  • Set XMP Basic Schema property 'Rating' to '3' with 'exiv2 -M "set Xmp.xmp.Rating 3"'
  • Open the file in some xmp conform application like Adobe Lightroom or Nikon ViewNX2. Verify that Rating and Label are set
  • According to http://dev.exiv2.org/boards/3/topics/687 it is approved to register your own namespace and set some property in there 'exiv2 -M "reg xmp http://ns.imagapp.pro/imageapp/v1/" -M "set Xmp.xmp.uuid ab75b096-83d3-11df-91a5-000c2953179a"'
  • Open the file in some xmp conform application like Adobe Lightroom or Nikon ViewNX2. See that Rating and Label are gone

Related issues

Related to Exiv2 - Feature #941: Upgrade xmpsdk source to Adobe's current versionClosed27 Dec 2013

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#1

Updated by Robin Mills over 6 years ago

  • Category set to metadata
  • Status changed from New to Assigned
  • Assignee set to Alan Pater
  • Target version set to 0.25
#2

Updated by Robin Mills over 6 years ago

  • Target version changed from 0.25 to 0.26
#3

Updated by Alan Pater about 6 years ago

  • Subject changed from xmp handling faults (III) to xmp handling faults (III) - AKA: policing XMP namespaces
  • Assignee changed from Alan Pater to Andreas Huggel

According to the XMP specification, the correct namespace for xmp is http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/

http://www.exiv2.org/tags-xmp-xmp.html

Step 5 overwrites the pre-registered XMP namespace with a different URI thus causing the apparent loss of the Label and Rating.

I have understood that exiv2 has made this design decision to not police XMP namespaces nor XMP properties. I think a case could be made for revisiting that decision on the grounds that it is a quite unusual user of exiv2 who would have a need or desire to change pre-registered namespaces or XMP properties and data types. Many if not most users would I suspect expect exiv2 to lock down existing namespaces and properties rather then let them mess things up. Of course, that is easy for me to say, as I am not qualified to actually write the code to do that! ;-)

I suggest holding off on any changes to this issue until the XMP SDK is updated. As of this writing the XMP SDK is at version 2014.12.

#4

Updated by Robin Mills about 5 years ago

  • Assignee changed from Andreas Huggel to Robin Mills
  • Target version changed from 0.26 to 0.28

I'll deal with this in v0.27 when I update to the latest XMPsdk.

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