[CREATE] Fwd: [Gimp-developer] OpenPalette Implementation.

[Cyrille Berger]

On Friday 23 November 2007, you wrote:
> That is, the way SVG specified things allows anything to be used.  
> Could be dublin core, could be XMP, could be CC specific, etc.

The drawback is that it doesn't help for interoperability, an application can 
add its own metadata XML and no one else can read it, and that would break 
interoperability. An other problem is that it increase the complexity for the 
application that want to read the file (it has to support reading XMP, RDF, 
Whatever, just to read the author and licence of the file).

I have the same problem with OpenRaster metadata. Maybe we should start a 
general reflection about metadata in create, about wether we only support one 
format, leave it free or have a "bless" list.

> Personally I like XMP, the issues that it solves and the way in which  
> it solves them.

Personnaly I have mixed feeling about XMP. I have heard as much good things as 
bad things about it.

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Cyrille Berger