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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Hi,</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I noticed that the current GDAL NITF driver does not copy text header when CreateCopy is performed. So I updated the driver code to perform the copying. However, the approach I took adds some additional data to the dataset’s metadata. I want to check to see if this is ok before I open a Trac ticket to submit my changes.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">NITF Text Domain Before:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">DATA_0=This is test text file 01.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">DATA_1=This is test text file 02.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">NITF Text Domain Now:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">DATA_0=This is test text file 01.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">HEADER_0=TEXT00000020090407185409SOMETITLE_1...</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">DATA_1=This is test text file 02.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">HEADER_1=TEXT00000020090408185409SOMETITLE_2...</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Implementation Notes:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The "HEADER_" metadata contains the whole header in unparsed form.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The header data has to be stored somewhere in the dataset so I can read it back when writing it. I am open to suggestion for putting the data somewhere else.</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> Let me know if this is ok.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">-Kevin Chiou</FONT>
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