Lightroom - writing an XML-export plugin/action

well, i think im sold on LR. ive looked at the alternatives, and it
seems to be the best combo of features i need (except for the lack of
rich in-program web sharpening. the photoshop droplet hack works for
now). only one piece is missing, and i have a complete workflow.

i dont use a commercial photo sharing site, i use my own...i like it
(http://www.semi-suave.com), and i like my search capabilities -- i
have 5k images, each w/ unique tags & captions, all of which can be
searched very quickly via to an in-memory XML catalog sitting on the
web server. its a roll-yer-own solution, and theyre fading out.. but
it works well. the only thing left to make the workflow from LR to web
seamless is updating my XML catalog.

to this end, im interested in writing a LR export action/plugin that,
for a given selection, outputs the file, camera, keywords & caption
data to an XML file (alongside the web JPGs). from there my automated
processes can copy the .JPGs to the website, pick up the .XML and
integrate it into the master XML catalog.

sounds like fun. anybody know a good place to start?


thanks,
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On Apr 26, 2:41 pm, spacemar...@mailinator.com wrote:
> sounds like fun. anybody know a good place to start?

well, i learned that the SDK is not out yet, so really nothing can be
done.

however, by instructing LR to embed all relevant metadata into the web
JPGs via XMP, it is very possible to write code to extract it, which i
am now using for my website's import process. i based my C# class off
of these articles:

http://www.shahine.com/omar/ReadingX...PEGUsingC.aspx

http://tinyurl.com/2wjgta

.....for anyone thats interested i will likely post my code on my site
at some point.


sm