[Gllug] Describing pictures in XML

[Rob Crowther]

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Most picture applications I know of seem to store this information in
> databases that make it difficult to extract the meta data for just one
> of the photos.

A lot of them are just reading the metadata that's already present 
within the image file, which is already in XML format:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform

Try this for reading it, looks like an active project:

http://www.exiv2.org/

Rob
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