I don't know yet if there's anything to really be gained by using their
library.
A pugixml impl may be more feasible.
Either way, as it stands now, I'll use what's already there.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmmm... remind me what problem are we supposed to be solving by
> incorporating Adobe's library?  Is there some XMP data we're not reading
> correctly now that an OIIO-using application would need?  If it doesn't fix
> a bug or significantly extend functionality, and do so with less effort to
> swap out the library than to fix our code, I think we should leave well
> enough alone.
>
> -- lg
>
>
> On Jun 24, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Daniel Wyatt wrote:
>
> Ok. I'll use the existing stuff for now.
> Quick note: their library requires expat (which I guess would be redundant
> since we have pugixml) and zlib. You have to place the source in
> third-party/expat/lib and third-party/zlib/zlib which is a little odd. Not
> sure if linking to a shared object is possible or not.
>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Let me look at this library and get back to you.  The regex is admittedly
>> awkward, and we've talked about removing it and using actual XML parsing now
>> that we have PugiXML as a dependency elsewhere.  It's not entirely clear to
>> me what the tradeoffs are of using their library, but I'll poke around.  Use
>> what's in OIIO for now; we can always swap out the implementation of the XMP
>> stuff later.
>>
>> -- lg
>>
>>
>> On Jun 24, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Daniel Wyatt wrote:
>>
>> As for Exif/XMP, I wanted to ask a question about that:
>> Is there reason not to use Adobe's XMP library (
>> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp.html)?
>> It is BSD licensed.
>> I saw the current regex hackery and just thought it might be easier.
>> It /is/ kind of a pain to build and required adding in some missing
>> includes (cstring at least) but it might be worth looking into.
>> I can use the existing code for now though.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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