[Digikam-devel] [Bug 264007] XMP sidecar file does not distinguish between images of the same name but with different extension

[Marcel Wiesweg]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264007





--- Comment #13 from Marcel Wiesweg <marcel wiesweg gmx de>  2011-03-13 16:26:37 ---
As we learn on the exiv2 forum, the mess is complete! now that some
applications even use both conventions at the same time to have to different
sidecar files...
The original specification is not precise, yet leans to the basename.xmp
convention. This simply fails to handle the case in the original report here.
The basename.suffix.xmp convention looks technically superior then.
It would be interesting to see what major competitors do when they are given
such files to _read_ even if they write in the basename.xmp convention?

For reading, we can easily support both, giving priority to basename.suffix.xmp
for example. For writing, I would tend to use basename.suffix.xmp unless that
makes us incompatible with market leaders.

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