LR-META-XMP: preserve foreign namespace collisions

docs/gaps.md

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 # Gaps: where LightCraft falls short of Lightroom
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-21 · **Change:** minor (gap 28: F8 shows / hides the right panel; import review album hierarchy, #2362; gap 20: Minolta MRW decodes; gap 10: 551 models verified; gap 15: Print Page Options — page numbers, page info, crop marks; gap 15: Print Page Options — page numbers, page info, crop marks; gap 28: `\` shows / hides the Filter Bar in the grids; gap 21: Indonesian interface shipped, every message but What's New; gap 27: the Windows x64 installer verified on Windows 11; the Settings → Apps uninstall confirmation remains)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-22 · **Change:** patch (XMP namespace-prefix collision regression fixed; ranked gaps unchanged)
 
 Every known shortfall, one entry each, ranked by user impact (how many Lightroom users hit it, and
 how hard it blocks them), then by effort. **Agents pick work from the top** (the first entry nobody is
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 ## Closed recently (kept for calibration)
 
+- 2026-10-22: saving XMP preserves foreign namespaces even when they use `lc:` or `xmp:` prefixes; importing them no longer interprets their properties as native settings or ratings. Parser, merge and save-command regressions cover the correction; no ranked gap or readiness estimate changes.
+
 - 2026-10-20: the import review album picker follows the sidebar folder hierarchy and searches album paths (#2362, LR-IMP-ADD-DIALOG), retaining None/New album and existing destination IDs. This closes a usability subgap; no ranked gap or headline feature count closes.
 
 - 2026-10-12: original-pixel detail at 100% (gap 4, LR-VIEW-ZOOM, #323): soft proofing gets zoom windows like
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-22 | patch | XMP namespace-prefix collisions no longer overwrite foreign metadata; ranked gaps and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-21 | minor | Gap 28 shrinks: F8 shows / hides the right panel (`view.rightPanel`); rating `[` `]`, flag cycling and F1 help were already bound, so the entry lists only filter-bar keys, Tab / ⇧Tab and F5; 2–4 h (was 4–8) |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | #2362: import destination albums use the shared hierarchy/search picker instead of a flat name list; existing import workflows retained; ranked gaps/readiness counts unchanged |
 | 2026-10-19 | minor | Gap 21: Indonesian (`id`) shipped with every catalog message but What's New; four new languages left (Hindi, Arabic, Korean, Vietnamese), 135–239 h |

docs/parity-checklist.md

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 # Lightroom parity checklist
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-21 · **Change:** minor (LR-MERGE-HDR / LR-MERGE-PANO: Lanczos-3 warps; LR-IMP-LOCAL: browsing from the sidebar records the folder; LR-VIEW-ZOOM: only a full-size drag within 20 ms clears a slow-drag verdict; LR-IMP-ADD-DIALOG: hierarchical import album destination reconciled with main, #2362; KEY-SLIDER-NUDGE: vertical wheel nudges need a click or drag in the row; leaving it disarms them; LR-EDIT-OPTICS-PROFILE: Fujifilm nine-knot lens tables read at the plain radius; LR-VIEW-ZOOM: only a full-size drag within 20 ms clears a slow-drag verdict; LRC-LIB-LIBFOLDERS, LR-BEHAV-BG-TASKS: Synchronize Folder's scan shows its folder listing and stops it on ✕; LRC-LIB-LIBFOLDERS: Synchronize Folder says a folder is up to date; LR-LIB-STACK: filmstrip stack badge click; LRC-LIB-REFVIEW / CATALOG-SWITCH: Escape preserves edits; catalog-local pins; deleted and malformed references refused; LRC-LIB-COMPARE: the Info panel labels the active photo while culling, #2398; KEYC-RATING: `\` shows / hides the Filter Bar in the grids; LR-VIEW-PHOTOGRID: the grid reads only the photos an import batch or an edit touched, not the whole list; earlier: LRC-PRINT-PAGE: Print Page Options; LR-META-XMP: fewer false unimported-XMP warnings) · **Target:** Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-22 · **Change:** patch (LR-META-XMP: foreign namespaces cannot impersonate recognized prefixes) · **Target:** Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6
 
 The measured, row-by-row checklist: one row per Lightroom feature, menu item and shortcut, what we
 have and what is missing. It answers *does the feature exist?* (feature breadth). Whether it is good
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 | LR-META-COPYRIGHT-DEFAULT | Default copyright on import | P1 | ✅ | `cmd:library.preferences` (`import.copyright`, `import.creator`), `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/settings.rs` | Settings → Import → Metadata; fills only photos without their own |
 | LR-META-LOCATION | Location editing | P2 | 🟡 | `cmd:photo.setMeta` (`location`, `city`, `state`, `country`, `gps`), `cmd:metadata.reverseGeocode` | place fields and GPS (decimal or degrees / minutes / seconds) edited in Info, read/written as IPTC Core / Photoshop / EXIF XMP; Show on Map opens OpenStreetMap; Fill Location fills empty City / State / Country from GPS offline (GeoNames, downloaded on request: `cmd:metadata.downloadPlaceNames`); no embedded map |
 | LR-META-COPYPASTE | Copy / paste metadata | P2 | ✅ | `cmd:photo.copyMetadata`, `cmd:photo.pasteMetadata` | title, caption, alt text, extended description, copyright (notice, status, usage terms, info URL), creator, place fields, keywords; `fields` picks a subset |
-| LR-META-XMP | XMP read/write | P0 | ✅ | `cmd:photo.saveMetadataToFile`, `cmd:photo.readMetadataFromFile`, `cmd:library.xmpPreferences`, `crates/engine/src/sidecar.rs`, `docs/xmp-interop.md` | manual rereading also reads sidecar-free JPEG embedded XMP (first complete standard APP1 before SOS/EOI, within 16 MiB of headers and 4096 marker/fill steps; no extended assembly or between-scan packets, not strict whole-JPEG validation; reader cases in `crates/engine/src/sidecar.rs`); a discovered unreadable sidecar fails without embedded fallback; procedural refresh/undo, non-UTF-8 sidecar and two explicit malformed fixtures in `crates/engine/src/tests_xmp.rs` (file-write checks use auto-write off); sidecar wins for metadata; a sidecar capture time (`exif:DateTimeOriginal` / `photoshop:DateCreated` / `xmp:CreateDate`) fills in only when the file has none; saving merges into an existing sidecar (`crates/meta/src/xmp_merge.rs`): another app's `crs:`, `xmpMM:History` and unknown namespaces are kept byte for byte, an unreadable sidecar is backed up first; with stem naming, files sharing a stem (raw + JPEG) get separate sidecars (`<file>.xmp` for all but the raw; an import ranks the files it is adding the same way, so a TIFF or JPEG arriving beside its raw reads its own `<file>.xmp` and never the raw's `IMG_0001.xmp`, issue #1905); a `crs:` custom white balance on a relative-WB raw is shifted from `crs:AsShotTemperature` rather than read as Kelvin, or kept As Shot and reported when the packet has no as-shot white (issue #510); heal and clone spots (`crs:RetouchAreas`, legacy `crs:RetouchInfo`) are read into our spots (`crates/engine/src/crs_masks.rs`, see `docs/xmp-interop.md` → Spot removal); radial masks (`Mask/CircularGradient`) keep Lightroom's inside / outside: `crs:Flipped="true"` is the effect-inside flag of current masks and of the legacy Radial Filter, `crs:MaskInverted` the inversion, checked against Lightroom Classic's renders (issue #1815); Read Metadata from File never writes the sidecar back, even with auto-write on, so another app's later `crs:` edits are still read (issue #934); settings Lightroom writes only for itself (`CompatibleVersion`, the profile digests, the lens profile's name / file / setup, `CropConstrainToUnitSquare`, the lens profile's strength at 100 %) are not reported as unimported (`crates/engine/src/crs.rs`) |
+| LR-META-XMP | XMP read/write | P0 | ✅ | `cmd:photo.saveMetadataToFile`, `cmd:photo.readMetadataFromFile`, `cmd:library.xmpPreferences`, `crates/engine/src/sidecar.rs`, `docs/xmp-interop.md` | manual rereading also reads sidecar-free JPEG embedded XMP (first complete standard APP1 before SOS/EOI, within 16 MiB of headers and 4096 marker/fill steps; no extended assembly or between-scan packets, not strict whole-JPEG validation; reader cases in `crates/engine/src/sidecar.rs`); a discovered unreadable sidecar fails without embedded fallback; procedural refresh/undo, non-UTF-8 sidecar and two explicit malformed fixtures in `crates/engine/src/tests_xmp.rs` (file-write checks use auto-write off); sidecar wins for metadata; a sidecar capture time (`exif:DateTimeOriginal` / `photoshop:DateCreated` / `xmp:CreateDate`) fills in only when the file has none; saving merges into an existing sidecar (`crates/meta/src/xmp_merge.rs`): another app's `crs:`, `xmpMM:History` and unknown namespaces are kept byte for byte (ownership follows namespace URI: foreign namespaces using `lc:` or `xmp:` cannot supply native settings or ratings and survive saving), an unreadable sidecar is backed up first; with stem naming, files sharing a stem (raw + JPEG) get separate sidecars (`<file>.xmp` for all but the raw; an import ranks the files it is adding the same way, so a TIFF or JPEG arriving beside its raw reads its own `<file>.xmp` and never the raw's `IMG_0001.xmp`, issue #1905); a `crs:` custom white balance on a relative-WB raw is shifted from `crs:AsShotTemperature` rather than read as Kelvin, or kept As Shot and reported when the packet has no as-shot white (issue #510); heal and clone spots (`crs:RetouchAreas`, legacy `crs:RetouchInfo`) are read into our spots (`crates/engine/src/crs_masks.rs`, see `docs/xmp-interop.md` → Spot removal); radial masks (`Mask/CircularGradient`) keep Lightroom's inside / outside: `crs:Flipped="true"` is the effect-inside flag of current masks and of the legacy Radial Filter, `crs:MaskInverted` the inversion, checked against Lightroom Classic's renders (issue #1815); Read Metadata from File never writes the sidecar back, even with auto-write on, so another app's later `crs:` edits are still read (issue #934); settings Lightroom writes only for itself (`CompatibleVersion`, the profile digests, the lens profile's name / file / setup, `CropConstrainToUnitSquare`, the lens profile's strength at 100 %) are not reported as unimported (`crates/engine/src/crs.rs`) |
 | LR-META-EXIF-FULL | Full EXIF/IPTC [Classic] | P1 | ✅ | `cmd:photo.allMetadata`, `cmd:dialog.allMetadata`, `crates/meta/src/tags.rs`, `crates/meta/src/exif.rs`, `crates/meta/src/iptc.rs` | `photo.allMetadata` reuses loaded original bytes for embedded XMP and keeps sidecar precedence (`crates/engine/src/tests_xmp.rs`); read and written on export; Info ▸ All Metadata…: every TIFF / EXIF / GPS / interop tag (named, common values spelled out) and the XMP fields, searchable; metadata presets |
 
 ## F. Edit panel — global adjustments (EDIT)
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-22 | patch | LR-META-XMP: namespace URI determines ownership; foreign namespaces using recognized prefixes survive saves and cannot supply native settings or ratings; status and counts unchanged |
 | 2026-10-21 | patch | LR-IMP-ADD-DIALOG: reconcile #2362 with current main; deleted-album guard and hierarchical picker retained; counts unchanged |
 | 2026-10-20 | minor | LR-IMP-ADD-DIALOG: #2362 gives the import review the shared hierarchy/search album picker while retaining None/New album and existing destination IDs; status and feature counts unchanged |
 | 2026-10-21 | patch | KEY-SLIDER-NUDGE: vertical wheel nudges need a click or drag in the slider's row; leaving it (even between two frames) or Tab focus alone does not arm them (issue #1355); status unchanged |

docs/whats-new.md

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 # What's new in LightCraft
 
+## 2026-10-22
+
+### Foreign XMP metadata survives namespace-prefix collisions
+- Saving a sidecar keeps another application's properties even when its namespace uses prefixes such as `lc`
+  or `xmp`. Those foreign properties no longer become LightCraft settings or ratings when imported.
+
 ## 2026-10-21
 
 ### Sharper resampling in HDR and panorama merges

docs/xmp-interop.md

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   ones), `xmp:CreatorTool`, comments, the packet wrapper and padding. LightCraft's properties go into one
   `rdf:Description` of their own; owned properties written by another application (in attribute or element form) are
   removed from its description, which otherwise stays as it was.
+- Ownership follows the namespace URI, not the prefix spelling. A foreign namespace bound to `lc:` or `xmp:`
+  stays foreign: its properties are preserved and do not become LightCraft settings or ratings. Genuine namespace
+  aliases remain interchangeable, including namespace declarations containing XML character references.
 - A sidecar that can't be read as XMP (not well-formed, not UTF-8, no `rdf:RDF`) is first copied to
   `<name>.xmp.bak-<date><time>` (`-1`, `-2`… if taken — a backup is never overwritten), then replaced. A sidecar that
   can't be read at all (permissions) is left alone and the save fails.