Re-export the location vocabulary; update elide

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Location re-exports

A downstream consumer building entity anchors needs to name where an entity sits, and could not: modality exported the four marker types and nothing else, so ImageLocation, TextLocation and the geometry they carry were unreachable without depending on elide directly.

Each medium's module is now re-exported alongside its marker, plus ModalityLocation and the BoundingBox / Point / Polygon / TimeSpan primitives the locations are built from.

Additive, not a replacement. The patch as proposed replaced the whole modality block, which would have dropped modality::{Text, Image, Audio, Tabular} — public API, and what this crate's own doc comment demonstrates (entities::<Text>()). The stated goal was additive re-exports, so the markers stay.

Verified the whole vocabulary resolves from a crate depending only on elide-pipeline:

image::ImageLocation { bounding_box, polygon, page }
text::TextLocation { coord, page }
audio::AudioLocation { span, speaker_id }
tabular::TabularLocation { row_index, column_index }
Modality::NAME  // "text" / "image" / "audio" / "tabular"

elide 0eb6f34 → cace957

codec-tiff dropped. Upstream's codec-image is now PNG + JPEG only, so our forwarding feature had nothing to forward to. No code or docs referenced TIFF.

Two advisories, ignored with verified reasoning. The bump brings a metadata modality (elide#263) whose EXIF dependency little_exif 0.6.23 pulls quick-xml 0.37.5:

RUSTSEC-2026-0194	quadratic run time on duplicate attribute names
RUSTSEC-2026-0195	unbounded namespace allocation → memory exhaustion

Upstream hit this and ignores both in its own deny.toml. I checked the reasoning rather than copying it, and it holds: little_exif pins ^0.37, the fix landed in the semver-incompatible 0.41, and 0.6.23 is the latest release — so there is no in-range update. Our own quick-xml is the patched 0.42.

One correction to upstream's note. It says little_exif "parses binary EXIF/TIFF, not namespaced XML". Its xmp.rs:132 does call attributes() on an XMP packet — XML embedded in image metadata — so 0194 is reachable, not inapplicable. It stays bounded: quadratic time over a single start tag's attribute list, capped by the packet, rather than unbounded allocation. 0195 genuinely does not apply: it is an NsReader bug and little_exif uses no NsReader anywhere. Both facts are recorded in deny.toml so the next person does not have to re-derive them.

Worth raising upstream so their note matches.

Also

crates/elide-template/README.md gains the License and Support sections every other crate README carries — it was missing both, noticed during the LICENSE rename in #442. All six are now uniform.

Verification

121 tests, clippy --all-targets --all-features, strict nightly doc, +nightly fmt --check, machete, deny (all four checks) — clean. Default and --no-default-features both build.

For the consumer

Once merged, bump elide-pipeline to this rev and the anchor types are nameable.

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• New Features

  • Expanded the public pipeline API with modality types for audio, images, tabular data, and text.
  • Added reusable geometry and timing primitives for addressing modality locations.

• Documentation

  • Added license and support information, including documentation, issue-tracking, and support-contact links.
  • Added guidance to limit input sizes before analysis, including a warning about performance risks from specially crafted PNG files.

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The pipeline crate expands public modality and location exports. Documentation adds license and support information. Document and advisory comments describe input-size limits and PNG metadata parsing behavior.

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Pipeline exports and documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Modality and location exports crates/elide-pipeline/src/lib.rs	The crate re-exports modality modules, ModalityLocation, and location primitives.
Input safety and advisory documentation crates/elide-pipeline/src/file/document.rs, deny.toml	Documentation describes input-size limits, quadratic PNG metadata parsing, and the handling of related RustSec advisories.
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Patch the vulnerable quick-xml path or bound metadata before parsing. The image flow accepts Document.bytes without an input or metadata size limit. little_exif 0.6.23 uses quick-xml 0.37.5, and PNG XMP rewrites invoke BytesStart::attributes() with quadratic CPU behavior for attacker-controlled attributes. A crafted PNG/XMP upload can therefore tie up a processing worker and reduce availability. Upgrade or patch the dependency, or enforce a strict bound before image and metadata parsing.

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[martsokha]

Updated for the review and for elide #271.

codec-tiff is back. elide #271 re-added TIFF support, so the forwarding feature has something to forward to again. Pin moves cace957 → d691f3b.

On the advisory finding — valid, and my note understated it. Two corrections, both from TechnikTobi/little_exif#104:

• "Bounded by the packet" was too reassuring. The advisory measures ~6s at 80k attributes on one tag, ~10min at 800k, and it is pure computation, so a caller-side I/O timeout cannot interrupt it.
• The reachable path is specifically remove_exif_from_xmp on the PNG EXIF-clear route (png/mod.rs:532), not an XMP packet in general.

On the two suggested remedies, neither applies here:

• Upgrade or patch the dependency — not possible downstream. Cargo resolves two quick-xml copies and the 0.37 one reached through little_exif stays live on that path. Only a little_exif release against >= 0.41 removes it, which is what #104 asks for.
• Enforce a bound before parsing — wrong layer. This is a stateless library with no request boundary of its own; a byte ceiling here is a policy invented for every embedder, and an arbitrary one.

So the mitigation is named where the caller will read it: Document's docs now say a host taking untrusted uploads should bound document size before calling analyze, deny.toml records why the ignore is a deferral rather than a dismissal, and #444 tracks what would close it.

RUSTSEC-2026-0195 remains inapplicable — NsReader bug, little_exif uses the plain Reader, which #104 confirms independently.

121 tests, clippy, strict doc, fmt, machete, deny — all clean. codec-tiff builds.