- These are absolute representations of where an IFD is positioned with
respect to the other IFDs. There is a more-specific, "fully-qualified"
form of the IFD-path that allows you to express indices in order to
refer to specific siblings.
- Eliminates issues with IFDs at different levels potentially having the
same name (if that's what is required with a certain dataset/
datasource).
- There is a specific IFD registry that controls the heirarchy of IFDs
that we recognize and the tags associated with the child IFDs. This
allows custom hierarchies replacing even the TIFF specification for
which are expected in an image (so we can read other types of images
or any potential IFD hierarchy, even non-image ones).
- IFD and IB instances embed the IFD-path and FQ IFD-path that they were
found or built for.
Dustin Oprea
Dustin Oprea