Importing XMP metadata

A newspaper client has given me XMP data with all the caption/metadata they need for a shoot. I can import this in Photo Mechanic but have not found a way to do this in LR.
I am using v 1.2 on Mac.
Many thanks
Adam

Handling Metadata is one of the things LR is still pretty weak at.
The short answer is No. Lightroom won't do that.
On the other hand you can Use photo mechanic to put the info into the pics and then import them into LR, or if they have already been imported into LR, use photo mechanic and then use synchronise to update the data in LR.

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