Invalid XML produced for certain (all) Apple iPhone 14 files.

[Mac2]

A user of my software reported that my software no longer displays metadata for iPhone 14 files.
The XML produced by ExifTool (which my software imports) is invalid:

I use ExifTool 12.63 on Windows.

I've downloaded a sample image from here (hard to find, I've used the one sample available from Austin:
https://www.austinmann.com/trek/iphone-14-pro-camera-review-scotland) and let my software process it to run into the problem.

This XML node is the problem:

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<Apple:SemanticStyle>
 <rdf:Description et:id='64' et:table='Apple::Main'>
 <et:desc>Semantic Style</et:desc>
 <et:prt rdf:parseType='Resource'>
 <Apple:0>1</Apple:0>
 <Apple:1>0</Apple:1>
 <Apple:2>0</Apple:2>
 <Apple:3>0</Apple:3>
 </et:prt>
 </rdf:Description>
 </Apple:SemanticStyle>

The Microsoft XML parser reports for

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[i]<Apple:0>1</Apple:0>[/i]
...
 [i]<Apple:3>1</Apple:3>[/i]
Error The character '0', hexadecimal value 0x30 is illegal at the beginning of an XML name.
Error The character '1', hexadecimal value 0x30 is illegal at the beginning of an XML name.
 Error The character '2', hexadecimal value 0x30 is illegal at the beginning of an XML name.
Error The character '3', hexadecimal value 0x31 is illegal at the beginning of an XML name.

and refuses to load the XML.

[Phil Harvey]

I've searched through the page you linked and can't find an original jpg sample.  Could you mail one to me (philharvey66 at gmail.com)?  Thanks.

- Phil

Edit: Never mind.  I found a sample elsewhere.   -- I'll get working on this.

[Phil Harvey]

ExifTool 12.64 will patch this by adding an underline to the invalid XML names.

Thanks for this report.

- Phil

[Mac2]

Cool, thank you.
If you search the page for download, you'll find one 45MB DNG sample. I could not find other samples.

[greybeard]

Cool, thank you.
If you search the page for download, you'll find one 45MB DNG sample. I could not find other samples.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl764411n9jxr5c/iPhone14Pro_ProRAW48MP.DNG?dl=1

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks.  I did find the DNG, but thought that maybe you found a JPEG somewhere since that is better for me.  I found a JPEG that shows this problem here (from an iPhone 14, not iPhone 14 Pro).

- Phil

[Mac2]

Thank you Phil!
The 12.64 version indeed fixed the problem and the users affected by this problem are now happy again. And so am I!

Have a nice weekend.