Exported categories don't show up in "Edit IPTC/XMP..."

by jonha4711 (Posted Tue May 17, 2016 9:40 am)
Let me begin by saying that this problem only concerns hierarchical tags/categories (ie those stored in XMP tag lr:hierarchicalSubject) and not those stored in dc:Subject. The latter do work although I agree with Erixx haxx that it'd be good if we actually knew what the options in "Edit IPTC/XMP... > Options" do.

xnview wrote:Could you send me the file used, and the way to reproduce?

No need to do that. Just define two top-level categories Test1 and Test2, and add to the latter a subcategory Test2Sub. Select an image w/o any categories and add all three categories and you will see that in the XMP tags tab both dc and lr tags will show up. If you then open the "Edit IPTC/XMP..." dialog only the dc values show up under the Keywords tab. (All this requires that option "Export DB Category to XMP Subject and IPTC Keyword" and sub-option "Create XMP data" are set. Also set "Edit IPTC/XMP... > Options" to XMP only.)

xnview wrote:IPTC/XMP keywords are readed and added to the catalog.

That is not correct. They are read and added IF they are in dc:Subject but NOT if in lr:hierarchicalSubject. That's exactly my point: XnVewMP definitely writes hierarchical subjects to the XMP tags but they do not show up in the "Edit IPTC/XMP..." dialog.

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