GDAL version: GDAL 1.5.0, released 2007/12/18
The closing tag of the value elements is lowercase </value> and does not match the opening tag case </Value> for the following:
<Option name='PHOTOMETRIC' type='string-select'>
...
<Value>MINISWHITE</value>
....
</Option>
<Option name='PROFILE' type='string-select' default='GDALGeoTIFF'>
...
<Value>GeoTIFF</value>
....
</Option>
<Option name='PIXELTYPE' type='string-select'>
...
<Value>SIGNEDBYTE</value>
....
</Option>
Python example:
from osgeo import gdal
from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
driver=gdal.GetDriverByName('GTiff')
metadata=driver.GetMetadata()
optionsXML=metadata['DMD_CREATIONOPTIONLIST']
XMLdom=parseString(optionsXML)
...
File "c:\python24\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 1925, in parseString
return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
File "c:\python24\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 940, in parseString
return builder.parseString(string)
File "c:\python24\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 223, in parseString
parser.Parse(string, True)
ExpatError: mismatched tag: line 1, column 1168
#Workaround:
XMLdom=parseString(optionsXML.replace('</value>','</Value>')) #Malformed XML
