RDF is a pain
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So while I was able to easily rip out XMP data from a JPEG, actually parsing it looks harder, for several reasons:
- It’s XML, which means that there’s either expat which has lots of callbacks you have to do, and C just doesn’t feel right with that.
It’s RDF, so even if you get the XML turned into a tree, all the libraries that deal with it see it as a digraph. Sample function from a library that deals with RDF:
librdf_iterator* librdf_model_get_arcs (librdf_model *model, librdf_node *source, librdf_node *target);It’s XMP, so you have to worry about padding out the result and sticking it back in a JPEG.
- It’s image metadata, so all you really care about is that it contains key=>value pairs. What fun!