Do I need the XMP SDK?

Hello,
I've been able to open, populate, and print an Adobe .pdf form from VB.NET.
However, the example that I have requires me to know the structure of the form. I'd like to be able to "read" the structure of the form and populate it on the fly from a database. If I'm understanding what they mean by metadata, I believe that XMP would be the technology to use to do this.
I don't need to be able to save changes to the form, and since my user's workstations won't have Acrobat writer, I'd be unable to do this anyway.
-Eric

The XMP SDK provides ways to scan and inject metadata into a file that is saved from an application. Sometimes the app does it for you and sometimes you have to know the structure of the file format and do it yourself. You may not understand the "data about data" approach XMP is taking. It seems designed for making content smart but not actually being the content itself. It could get dicey trying to stuff, even temporarily, a lot of data in the space alloted in different file formats.

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Hi,
I'm not a XMP expert but I've been working for some years with Semantic Web technologies. My understanding is that XMP is a subset of RDF (one of the main pieces of the Semantic Web) so I will try to make my contribution to this problem from there.
Consequently, looking at your problematic piece of XMP:
<plus:Licensee>
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          <plus:LicenseeID>http://plus-id.org/AAA-987</plus:LicenseeID>
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</plus:Licensee>
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<plus:Licensee>
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         <rdf:type rdf:resource="plus:LicenseeDetail"/>
         <plus:LicenseeID>http://plus-id.org/AAA-987</plus:LicenseeID>
         <plus:LicenseeName>ABC Advertising Agency</plus:LicenseeName>
      </rdf:li>
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</plus:Licensee>
I have marked in bold where the problem is. Your piece of XML is missing the rdf:parseType="Resource" construct. I will explain why this is necessary from what I know from RDF. RDF is based on a graph model. There are resources, which correspond to graph nodes and represent the things the RDF metadata is talking about, and properties, which correspond to graph edges and represent the attributes and relations used to say things about the resources.
In RDF the convention is to use lowercase names for properties. This doesn't seem to be the convention in XMP so we must take a closer look at the XMP piece in order to identify what parts correspond to resources and to properties. From the LDF specification we know that plus:Licensee correspond to a property so it should link to a resource, in this case rdf:Seq (more specifically it is an anonymous resource (no id provided) of type rdf:Seq). Your example should have some additional markup before plus:Licensee, surely the resource that represents the licensee about which we are specifying the licensee using the plus:Licensee property.
Now, if we continue from the resource of type rdf:Seq, there is the rdf:li property (lower case as it is directly reused from the RDF specification). The problem now is that if we look directly inside rdf:li property we find rdf:type, plus:LicenseeID and plus:LicenseeName. It is clear that rdf:type (lowercase) is a property and from the LDF specification we can see that the other two also correspond to properties. Therefore, there is the problem. We have a property (rdf:li) pointing to three properties (rdf:type,...) so we are breaking the graph data model: nodes (resources) are connected through edges (properties) that link two nodes.
This is not the case for the example in the LDF specification. The rdf:parseType="Resource" constructs is a shortcut for:
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http://rhizomik.net/~roberto/

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