Machine readable XMP schema specification

I am working on a XMP custom schema creation and embedding tool in Java. In the Adobe XMP Specification from Jan 2004, under section 4, Extensibility of Schemas, it mentions that there might be future support for machine readable schema specifications. I was wondering if any work had been done on this so far. My idea on this is to use regular expressions to allow the computer to enforce the values for a property. This could be embedded as: <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> <rdf:Description rdf:about= xmlns:dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> <dc:language type=Locale regex=[a-zA-Z]{1,8}(-[a-zA-Z]{1,8})*> <rdf:Bag> <rdf:li /> </rdf:Bag> </dc:language> <dc:coverage type=ProperName regex=.+ /> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> The type attribute is used as a human readable type, which matches the type in the schema definition. The regex attribute is the machine readable part, a regular expression (regex) against which the input can be matched. Only matching input would be considered valid. For a ProperName, this is any text, and for a Locale, it follows the RFCI1766 specification. Of course, the attribute names could be changed. This is the way my program does it now, which seems to work. If anybody knows more about this, I would like to know, or if you want more examples, I can provide them. Thanks, Tuli Colorado School of Mines

I have a question about the custom panel language...
The document you provide seems to lack details on some features. Namely the icon and picture widgets. I see from looking at the examples and other vendor's web pages that these features exist, but I don't find any detailed descriptions of them in the documentation. Is there a more complete document describing these...
http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/custompanel.html
Alternatively, can someone fill me in on the syntax and options for at least the icon and picture widget. For instance, how do you load external icon or pictures...
Tom

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Greetings,
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Embedding XMP data into IBM-Microsoft RIFF file formats
=====================================================================
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ICMT dc:description
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INAM dc:title
IGNR dc:type
IARL dex:source
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property.
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Emmanuel,
It's been a while since you posted your message, but here's the info in the event you haven't already found it:
http://www.iptc.org/IPTC4XMP/index.php
I just started digging into XMP a few days ago and am planning to write software to add/read info from image files for the automagic creation of web pages. I've been using Adobe's XMP SDK and would be very interested in hearing how you wrote your code.
Cheers,
Andreas

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Hi Thomas,
I am not sure how to do this. Do I do this through Console?
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Also is the file you are referring to the image file or the Schema text file?
Sorry, I am a beginner when it comes to XML....
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Andrew

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Dear All,
I was wondering how to add more than one namespace in a schema. I have seen that some schemas in XMP have more than one namespace, e.g.,
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When I register a namespace using IMetaDataAccess:RegisterNamespace, say http://ns.abc.com, I get a schema as follows:
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""
 xmlns:abc="http://ns.abc.com">
How to add an another namespace, say http://ns.xyz.com, to the same schema to get as follows:
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""
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 xmlns:xyz="http://ns.xyz.com">

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