VRT Driver and PAM Dataset ignores empty categories (when reading)

[ftrastour]

When a VRT with categories is read, empty categories are ignored.

This results into an incorrect category to pixel value mapping ( categories are compacted ).

In the attached example, the categories #0 (pixel value 0) and category #15 are empty and ignored ( as reported by gdalinfo ) :

VRT ::

<CategoryNames>

<Category></Category> <Category>Open</Category> <Category>Sea</Category> <Category>Inland Water</Category> <Category>Mean individual</Category> <Category>Mean collective</Category> <Category>Dense collective</Category> <Category>Building</Category> <Category>Village</Category> <Category>Industrial</Category> <Category>Open in urban</Category> <Category>Forest</Category> <Category>Park</Category> <Category>Dense individual</Category> <Category>Block building</Category> <Category></Category> <Category>Scattered urban</Category>

</CategoryNames>

gdalinfo::

Categories:

0: Open 1: Sea 2: Inland Water 3: Mean individual 4: Mean collective 5: Dense collective 6: Building 7: Village 8: Industrial 9: Open in urban

10: Forest 11: Park 12: Dense individual 13: Block building 14: Scattered urban

[ftrastour]

vrt file with associated tif

[Even Rouault]

Fixed in trunk in r15300 and in branches/1.5 in r15301

[ftrastour]

It seems that exactly the same problem appears when reading categories from a PAM File (.aux.xml).

[Even Rouault]

Fixed in trunk in r15305 and in branches/1.5 in r15306. Well, we see here the nice effects of copy & paste ;-)