Hello Phil,
I work with version ExifTool 12.37 on a Windows 10 system.
After "solving" the problems of my question "problems with -tagname^=", see https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=13083.0 (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=13083.0)
I continued with the tests of my application.
By accident I created an empty structure object with command
exiftool.exe -xmp-iptcext:creator={} test.xmp
I could also create a structure list with an empty object (for an user-defined structure list) with command
exiftool.exe -xmp:userstructlist=[{}] test.xmp
Of course I also tried to display these empty list/object with exiftool.exe -xmp:all -a -struct test.xmp
but the output was empty.
Now I have the questions:
- is this a feature (by design) or is it an error?
I think, it would be very helpful that such empty lists/objects are displayed.
Thanks for your help in advance
Best regards
herb
You're right that ExifTool doesn't return empty structures in XMP. Changing this may be very difficult, but I'll take a look to see if it is possible.
- Phil