XMP viewer

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XMP viewer

Is there a good viewer for XMP files? I tried opening with the "Property List Editor".app, but no joy. I also tried renaming it .xml, but that did also not work. Is there a good viewer that works with XMP besides looking at it as a flat text file?

1.6 GHz PPC G5, 12 pBook G4, 12 iBook G3, mini 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.4)

Posted on Oct 1, 2006 11:08 AM

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Answer 1

Philip Wilk Author

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Oct 1, 2006 9:43 PM in response to William Lloyd

I don't think you understand what I am asking.

XMP makes use of the W3C XML-based Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard in order to represent the metadata properties associated with a document.

I know that is intendied to be used transparently by programs such as Aperature or Photoshop, but I wish to browse the XMP sidecar file directly. It would be easier if XML editors would open them, but I have not found one that does. Browsing it with a text editor is tedious.

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kgelner

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Oct 1, 2006 9:45 PM in response to Philip Wilk

Is there a good viewer for XMP files? I tried opening
with the "Property List Editor".app, but no joy. I
also tried renaming it .xml, but that did also not
work. Is there a good viewer that works with XMP
besides looking at it as a flat text file?

Here I think you are better off with some kind of editor designed for programming - XCode would actually be prtety good and ships with your Mac, but the overall development tool install would be rather large.

You can look for programming editors, a number of other popular options would be BBEdit or JEdit or uEdit.

Versiontracker is a better place to search for these kinds of things.

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