On jeudi 16 mai 2019 08:14:54 CEST Michael Kefeder wrote: > Why overengineer this, just dump IPTC info into JSON and use that for > freestyle attributes. Sqlite even has an extension for fast parsing of that > https://sqlite.org/json1.html
Because sidecars are what they are: XML serialisation of XMP format metadata. And that's not going to change any time soon either. So using json would require including yet another parser in any code wanting to use that data, and for the time being you can forget about interoperability (notably with the Adobe products). As stated elsewhere, the principal problem is not including those extra metadata (enough ways to do that), but preserving, viewing and editing them *within darktable*. Remco P.S. I wouldn't call those IPTC data "freestyle", they have a rather precise definition, with defined codes for several of them. The same goes for many of the XMP elements. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
