XP Metadata

HI,
Please someone tell me how I can get my XP image metadata (keywords) to appear in Aperture. I have searched high and low for a utility. I have over 10k images tagged with keywords using XP. I have switched completely to OS X. Someone heeeeeelp pleeeease!

Windows XP's own EXIF tag
There’s no such thing. Windows XP metadata is similar to the IPTC data, and if you want Aperture to see it then it will need to write this data to Standards Compliant IPTC fields.
Regards
TD

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Hello turingtest2 and thank you for your reply.
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matt_hornet wrote:
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