Don't raise exception for empty intersection (fix issue #139)

[stweil]

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil sw@weilnetz.de

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[kba]

But if the child element is outside the parent element, that is an error that should be adressed. I agree that raising an exception shifts the responsibility for debugging to the user, that is not ideal. But this should be debugged nonetheless.

[stweil]

But this should be debugged nonetheless.

Sure, that's why I added LOG.error. But you are right, this is not a fix but a workaround, so issue #139 should be kept open even with this commit.

[stweil]

But if the child element is outside the parent element, that is an error that should be adressed.

Maybe both parent and child are empty, then the child is not outside, but the same error is triggered.

[bertsky]

Introducing this exception was a conscious decision for the current state of coordinate consistency in OCR-D.

We know that most processors currently write illegal coordinates sometimes, which ultimately fails at validation time with lots of hard to debug or trace or visualise error messages. But shifting the burden for correct coordinates from validation to implementation is a large effort, and we need core to support this as much as possible. That's where this idea will step in.

But looking at the example in #139 I can now see that this will happen much more frequently than I thought in ocrd_tesserocr. So yes, we need to offer some workaround as well. I'll have to think about which is preferable: fixing this instance of #139 directly or downgrading to an error message...

[stweil]

Issue #139 is fixed now with a better solution, so closing this pull request.