[Clipart] upload ist failing

[Omar Abo-Namous]

Hi guys,

does upload work again?? Should i reupload my svg file? i would like to 
report my first successfull openclipart submission.

thnx anyways.

Omar

Bryce Harrington wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:15:46PM -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
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>>Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.com> writes:
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>>>>Man, if I knew last October what I know now, I would have said
>>>>that embedding the metadata in the actual SVG images would be a
>>>>lot of trouble and bug-prone and that we should use separate .rdf
>>>>files like we have to do anyway for all the non-XML filetypes.
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>>>Interesting, I took this approach with DMS; 
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>>Which, embedding the metadata, or keeping it separate?
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>Keeping it separate.
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>>>sounds like we should stick with this mechanism in general.  
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>>Well, I *think* most of the bugs are worked out now, except for a
>>charset handling issue in the upload script.  
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>>But if we'd gone with the separate-metadata-file approach, it would
>>have saved us several significant bugs over the last few months:  the
>>one where the regular expression ate too much, the one where the
>>regular expression didn't insert the metadata if the root element
>>wasn't called svg, and the one where the files were written empty.
>>Plus two other bugs (a charset bug and the one where encode_entities
>>encoded too much) would only have impacted the metadata, leaving the
>>SVG files usable, but because the metadata was embedded the SVG files
>>were broken too.
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>>Live and learn.
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>Yeah...
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>>>I think we could do a "late binding" of the metadata, keeping the
>>>original svg around as submitted.  That way if the metadata update
>>>scripts fail, we can go back to the source and resolve it.
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>>Hmmm...  so, do you mean that the upload script would check in the SVG
>>as it stands when the user submits it to the DMS and then also set
>>metadata for it, as a separate step, and then the release process
>>could pull both the SVG and the metadata for it from the DMS and
>>then combine them at that point?
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>Essentially, yes.  Actually, it would be a bit simpler.  DMS already
>takes care of extraction (and management) of the metadata, so the upload
>script would only need to do the following:
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>  1.  Insert the file into dms (metadata is auto-extracted)
>  2.  (Optionally) Update any parameters as desired
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>For download, I suppose DMS should probably provide a way to retrieve
>the svg with the correct metadata inserted, plus some way to
>alternatively get the original version.
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>Bryce
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