Importing iView Media Pro INFP keyword metadata into LR1

Hi All
I have been tasked with testing LR1 for my employer. Currently, we have an iView [INFP] file containing hundreds of keywords. So far I have been unable to determine how to import (or convert and import) the INFP data into LR1. Does anyone out there know how to do this?
Many thanks

Forgive me if I am oversimplifying things, but if you are talking about regular iView MediaPro keyword list (I don't know what INFP means), there is a script with instructions on the iView user forum that will let you export the keywords into an XML file. Open that list in Excel, save it as a *.TXT file and then import the list into LR. You can probably import XML directly, but I am not sure.
You can even create the hierarchies with the TXT file if you want to--all you need to do is to insert a tab for the next level of the hierarchy as in:
Keyword 1
Mother Level Keyword 2
[Left TAB]Child Level Keyword 1
[Left TAB]Child Level Keyword 2
etc.
Keyword 3
I am pretty sure child-level keywords are distinct from base-level keywords. So if you have keywordX embedded into a file and your hierarchy is Keyword1>KeywordX, Keyword X from the file will be added as a new Keyword Tag and you will have:
Keyword1>KeywordX
as well as
KeywordX

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