[CS3 JS] How To Access Custom Metadata?

I have InCopy documents that contain custom XMP metadata in two namespaces, Dublin Core and PRISM, e.g.: ... <rdf:Description rdf:about=""> <dc:format xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">application/x-incopy</dc:format> <dc:title>Chickens and You</dc:title> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about=""> <prism:publicationName xmlns:prism="http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/1.2/" >Poultry Daily</prism:publicationName> </rdf:Description> ... In my JavaScript, I can access the Dublin core values but cannot access the PRISM values and I'm not sure why not. For example, I have this: doc = app.activeDocument; metadata = doc.metadataPreferences; namespaces["dc"] = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; namespaces["prism"] = "http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/1.2/"; $.writeln("dc:title=" + metadata.getProperty(namespaces["dc"], "title/*[1]")) // Returns expected result "Chickens and You" $.writeln("prism:publicationName=" + metadata.getProperty(namespaces["prism"], "publicationName/*[1]")) // Returns unexpected empty result, should be "Poultry Daily". If I do metadata.save() I see the PRISM metadata in the saved result: <rdf:Description rdf:about="" xmlns:prism="http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/1.2/"> <prism:publicationName>Poultry Daily</prism:publicationName> </rdf:Description> So I'm sort of at a loss but I suspect that I don't really understand what the path value should be--I haven't been able to find any clear documentation on what the path is addressing or how its actually interpreted. What am I missing or doing wrong? Thanks, Eliot

[email protected] wrote:
> Dude, I started that thread :-)
Missed that. It's been a long week.
The problem is this line (probably).
metadata.getProperty(namespaces["prism"], "publicationName/*[1]")
You apparently copied the syntax from dc:title in the previous line. dc:title is
an 'Lang Alt' kind of property which is, effectively, an array. Your
prism:publicationName is a simple value property. I suspect that the "[1]"
syntax (and possible the "/*" before it) are what's causing problems.
I don't recall seeing docs for this either.
-X

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