IOP Metadata from EPMA or a .ads file?

Is it possible to feed metadata from EPMA to IOP? I understand the format for metadata going to EPMA looks nothing like metadata I have used as a datasource for IOP, but I was wondering if anyone has tried this, or had any suggestions regarding it?
There is an EPMA File generator which will generate an Excel file, and IOP can use an Excel file as a data source. I don't suppose anyone has automated the .ads -> XLS process, and is there anything in the generated XLS file which we can use to build a level in a hierarchy, or are there better ways to get the hierarchy data?
Thank you.

Another possibility, if you can see the metadata table, would be to pull the metadata from the EPMA metadata table, although I'm not sure if I can get visibility to that. There is an EPMA interface table for metadata (for pushing metadata in), but I do not know if I would be able to query from that table to get data for IOP.
IOP supports level and dynamic dimension definitions. Can I get an example of a dynamic (java class file) or rowsource based build from this table, if a user can have read writes to this table?
Thank you.

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Hi Spawn,
Name should not be a problem.. I will probably post you the entire code (I modified it to meet your goals for having multiple column xml nodes as well)
For the code snippet below:
a. In powershell all my changes will have ## prefixed comments
b. in XML I have changed one column name to "Name" to replicate your case and also added a parent node for making the xml well formed.
and the SharePoint output
Please see the code below
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<Column Name="Name" Type="Text">
<Values>
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<Column Name="Column2" Type="Text">
<Values>
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<Values>
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<Values>
<Value>Some Data</Value>
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<Column name="Column4" type="Text">
<Values>
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</Values>
</Column>
<Column name="Column4" type="Text">
<Values>
<Value>More Data</Value>
</Values>
</Column>
</Columns>
</FileData>
Thanks and Regards,
Partha
AvePoint

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        XMP_OptionBits opts = kXMPFiles_OpenForUpdate | kXMPFiles_OpenUseSmartHandler;
        std::string status = "";
        // First we try and open the file
        bool ok = p_private->m_file.OpenFile( "Collines.jpg", kXMP_UnknownFile, opts );
        // Check we can put the XMP packet back into the file
        if( p_private->m_file.CanPutXMP( meta ) )
                // If so then update the file with the modified XMP
                p_private->m_file.PutXMP( meta );
        else
            LOGIT( LOG_ERROR, "PutXMP: cannot put XMP" );
        p_private->m_file.CloseFile();
        SXMPFiles::Terminate();
        SXMPMeta::Terminate();
    catch( XMP_Error& e )
        LOGIT( LOG_EXCEPTION, "writeSimple: " + std::string(e.GetErrMsg()) );
Reading the property:
void Foo::readSimple()
    if( !SXMPMeta::Initialize() )
        LOGIT( LOG_ERROR, "Could not initialize XMP toolkit!" );
        return;
    // custom schema
    std::string actualPrefix;
    bool ret = SXMPMeta::RegisterNamespace( kNS1, "ns1", &actualPrefix );
    XMP_OptionBits options = 0;
    // Must initialize SXMPFiles before we use it
    if ( !SXMPFiles::Initialize( options ) )
        LOGIT( LOG_ERROR, "Could not initialize SXMPFiles!");
        return;
    try
        // Options to open the file with - open for editing and use a smart handler
        XMP_OptionBits opts = kXMPFiles_OpenForUpdate | kXMPFiles_OpenUseSmartHandler;
        std::string status = "";
        // First we try and open the file
        bool ok = p_private->m_file.OpenFile( "Collines.jpg", kXMP_UnknownFile, opts );
        // Check we can put the XMP packet back into the file
        SXMPMeta meta;
        std::string xmpPacket;
        XMP_PacketInfo packetInfo;
        ok = p_private->m_file.GetXMP( &meta, &xmpPacket, &packetInfo );
        std::cout << "DBG: getXMP: " << xmpPacket << std::endl; // output is ok, I can see what I wrote before
        std::string value;
        bool exists = meta.GetProperty( kNS1, "name", &value, 0 ); // returns false...
        std::cout << "writeRead: " << value << std::endl; // nothing in value
        p_private->m_file.CloseFile();
        SXMPFiles::Terminate();
        SXMPMeta::Terminate();
    catch( XMP_Error& e )
        LOGIT( LOG_EXCEPTION, "readSimple: " + std::string(e.GetErrMsg()) );
Do you have any idea?
Thanks in adavance!
Chris.

Hello? No one has any idea?

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