Importing XMP sidecar with PSD files

I've got a boatload of PSD files in Aperture with keywords and other metadata. I want to import these into LR5.
Aperture will not (AFAIK) write the metadata I have in Aperture to the files themselves since they are PSDs. But it does write to XMP files, so I exported a test batch, PSD + sidecar of same name to a folder. I go to import that folder into LR5 and it works, except no metadata.
I checked the metadata in the sidecars with a text editor; it's there.
I tried the Metadata>Read Metadata from File menu; nothing.
What's up?

Thanks. One problem is that Aperture doesn't seem to put things in the XMP that I'm interested in, or in places I wanted in sidecars. I didn't get too far into it, but it seemed to write a more complete set of data into the tiffs than into the sidecar for the same file. I didn't really care if it was in XMP or exif or IPTC or wherever as long as it was useful in LR. As it turned out, exporting to tiff with the metadata from Aperture was the fastest way to go for thousands of files.
BTW, anyone have a nice chart with where various bits of metadata are stored by common applications? Although each has it's own standard there doesn't seem to be enough agreement about where a "keyword" or "tag" winds up in exif, IPTC, XMP, xattr, etc. Annoying. Supposedly Mavericks in the MacOS is gonna have some support for tagging (gee, welcome to the 21st century) in lieu of labels; wonder if they'll make any use of any of the formats we use.
BTW, Graphic Converter 8 was very helpful in massinging metadata and reorganizing in the move from Aperture to LR. After all these years it still proves to be super useful.

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