P.S: I pushed the code the other night if anyone wants to take a look. There
are still some issues that I'm working on and I'm trying to get the layer's
imagespecs filled in.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Wyatt <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>> Larry Gritz
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
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