Hopefully in a few weeks, but I don't know a date. We have a huge backlog due 
to the Claude security scans. 
https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/security-scanning-at-foundation-scale

(There is no XMP parsing issue)

Tilman

https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/security-scanning-at-foundation-scale

On 2026/09/07 14:25:18 Sylvere BABIN wrote:
> Hello Tilman,
> 
> Thank you so much for fixing this so quickly !
> I tried it and it solves the problem for me.
> 
> I share your concern about case sensivity, but I think it's wise to be a 
> little flexible where there can't be misinterpretation (and especially 
> because it works great for me)
> 
> Do you have any idea when the 3.0.9 will be officially released ?
> 
> Best regards,
> Sylvère
> 
> 
> On 2026/09/07 11:07:30 Tilman Hausherr wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've fixed it in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-6257 although 
> > I'm not really happy with it (ChatGPT claims it is case sensitive but we 
> > all know that ChatGPT is very persuasive even if it lies) but I looked at 
> > my comments from last time, so I did it anyway. Please build from source 
> > and test your file and tell us whether it worked.
> 
> >
> > Tilman
> >
> > On 2026/09/07 10:26:42 Sylvere BABIN wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We use PDFBox to read the XMP metadata of PDF documents in the Factur-X 
> > > standard, a Franco-German e-invoicing standard.
> 
> > > It usually works very well, but we are experiencing an issue with some 
> > > PDF files sent by one of our partners.
> > >
> > > In the XMP schema of these specific files, one of the property types 
> > > doesn't respect the expected case : we got "closed choice of Text" 
> > > instead of "closed Choice of Text".
> 
> > >
> > > <rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
> > >                   <pdfaProperty:name>ConformanceLevel</pdfaProperty:name>
> > >                   <pdfaProperty:valueType>closed choice of 
> > > Text</pdfaProperty:valueType>
> > >                   <pdfaProperty:category>external</pdfaProperty:category>
> > >                   <pdfaProperty:description>The XML invoice data profile 
> > > in accordance with ZUGFeRD requirements
> > > (permitted values MINIMUM, BASIC WL, BASIC, EN 16931, 
> > > EXTENDED)</pdfaProperty:description>
> > >                 </rdf:li>
> > >
> > > In the 
> > > pdfAExtensionHelper.java<https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/blob/trunk/xmpbox/src/main/java/org/apache/xmpbox/xml/PdfaExtensionHelper.java>,
> > >  the allowed values (CLOSED_CHOICE, CLOSED_CHOICE_U, OPEN_CHOICE and 
> > > OPEN_CHOICE_U) are case-sensitive, even if there was a 
> > > fix<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-6131> (PDFBOX-6131) to 
> > > allow the first letter to be upper or lowercase.
> 
> > >
> > > So when we try to parse the XMP Metadata with xmpbox (3.0.7, but must be 
> > > the same with the last version), we get this exception :
> 
> > > Caused by: org.apache.xmpbox.xml.XmpParsingException: Unknown property 
> > > value type : closed choice of Text
> > >       at 
> > > org.apache.xmpbox.xml.PdfaExtensionHelper.populatePDFAPropertyType(PdfaExtensionHelper.java:206)
> > >       at 
> > > org.apache.xmpbox.xml.PdfaExtensionHelper.populatePDFASchemaType(PdfaExtensionHelper.java:186)
> > >       at 
> > > org.apache.xmpbox.xml.PdfaExtensionHelper.populateSchemaMapping(PdfaExtensionHelper.java:140)
> > >       at org.apache.xmpbox.xml.DomXmpParser.parse(DomXmpParser.java:230)
> > >       at org.apache.xmpbox.xml.DomXmpParser.parse(DomXmpParser.java:126)
> > >
> > > I've searched in the XMP Specification, but there's nothing clear about 
> > > if the syntax must strictly respects the specified case.
> 
> > > The PDFLib validator accepts the file, and it was issued by a great 
> > > national company (I admit it's not a strong argument).
> 
> > > So I think that the full "closed choice" or "open choice" types should be 
> > > parsed case-insensitively.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I can't share the test file because it contains sensitive 
> > > informations, but if you really need one I can try to mock it up.
> 
> > >
> > >
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