Bug#605941: libxmlgraphics-commons-java: ignores rdf:resource in XMP

[brian m. carlson]

Package: libxmlgraphics-commons-java
Version: 1.4.dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

When converting RDF into XMP, libxmlgraphics-commons-java ignores
rdf:resource attributes and instead leaves the properties completely
empty.  This is problematic because certain common uses of RDF and XMP
(e.g. cc:license attributes) are best used with rdf:resource.  Attached
is a patch which parses and emits rdf:resource attributes normally.
This patch is the same as the patch for 605940.  The only part of the
patch which fixes 605490 is that for line 188 et seq of XMPHandler.java;
the rest are for this bug.

An example of metadata that would normally be handled poorly:

  <rdf:RDF>
  	<rdf:Description rdf:about="">
  		<cc:license>
  			<rdf:Alt>
  				<rdf:li
  					rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/"/>
  				<rdf:li
  					rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"/>
  			</rdf:Alt>
  		</cc:license>
  	</rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>

Without the patch, this would end up as:

  <rdf:RDF>
  	<rdf:Description rdf:about="">
  		<cc:license>
  			<rdf:Alt/>
  		</cc:license>
  	</rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>

which is not particularly useful.

-- System Information:
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Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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Versions of packages libxmlgraphics-commons-java depends on:
ii  default-jre-headless [java2- 1:1.6-40    Standard Java or Java compatible R
ii  gcj-4.4-jre-headless [java2- 4.4.5-9     Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  gcj-jre-headless [java2-runt 4:4.4.5-1   Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  openjdk-6-jre-headless [java 6b20~pre1-2 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo

libxmlgraphics-commons-java recommends no packages.

libxmlgraphics-commons-java suggests no packages.

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