Syncing photos from Adobe Bridge?

Question

I have hunted across the web and haven't even found a page that discusses the question, let alone answers it:
Is it possible to sync photos TO an iPod from Adobe Bridge?
I suspect the answer is no (or at least, not directly).
Ideally, what I would like to do is "sync selected collections" to my iPod, including both ordinary collections and smart collections.
(If you're not familiar with Adobe Bridge—it's a file browser/organizer that, unlike iPhoto, views the actual native folder structure on the computer, rather than having its own database separate from the file structure.  Ordinarily you use Bridge to look at photos—or video files or whatever—directly in their containing folders.  However, if you want, you can create collections or smart collections.  These are exactly analogous to iPhoto's albums and smart albums, so I won't waste time describing them in detail.)
Since I suspect there is no way set up within iTunes or iOS to sync from Bridge's collections, I am looking for workarounds that will allow me to do this.
The collections, incidentally, are really just XML documents containing a list of file names (including the full path for each file).  Smart collections are XML lists of criteria.
I have monkeyed around with aliases and symbolic links coupled with the iTunes "sync photos from folder..." dialogue, and it appears that only hard links will work—not symbolic links to files, not symlinks to directories and certainly not aliases.
What's needed, then (and I believe this is the only way to accomplish my objective without doubling the hard disk space taken up) is a script/droplet/workflow/whatever that will take the collections from Bridge and create hardlinks for all photos from all collections, in a new directory (with the descriptive title "iPod syncing photos folder with hardlinks of collections' photos"—or maybe something shorter, heh heh.)
Can anyone scripting savvy point me in the direction of how I might accomplish this?

Answer 1

The solution I finally came up with involves hard links, and two separate automator workflows.  I posted about it in detail here: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=103600
Hope this helps someone else.