<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
> and I write the tags to my data files. With v0.9 I got tags of<br>
> person/family/a etc but now the EXIF header only reports "tim" (and in the<br>
> above example it would not distinguish "person/friend/tim" from<br>
> "person/family/tim"). Looking around on the mailing list I see mention that<br>
> digikam now uses a private "digiKam" XMP namespace for writing the true<br>
> hierarchical tag and writes flat tags to the IPTC section. That's fine as<br>
> well but I'd feel happier about it if<br>
><br>
> 1. exiftool reported that it could find the digiKam namespace (or exiv2<br>
> could). Can someone tell me how?<br>
> 2. digikam itself reported the values when using the metadata tab. It<br>
> reports the IPTC information that was written to the file such as copyright<br>
> and the flattened tags, but the XMP section is blank.<br>
<br>
</div>digiKam supports XMP starting from 0.10.0 . That means that any XMP info will<br>
be added only for photos which were tagged in 0.10.0 (or later). </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Exactly. I'm using 0.10.0 and I use settings to make it synchronise tags to files. But whatever I do I can't get a file to report the digiKam XMP namespace, not even digiKam itself in the XMP tag.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You could<br>
also choose tool "Synchronise all images with database". But in your situation<br>
I don't advise it - data written to images will be this improperly imported.<br>
<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I feel kind of deflated with that statement. To say that I am no longer allowed to write tags to old files that were previously tagged in 0.9.x is to say that those files are now static and not allowed to change just because I installed better software. That seems wrong.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
> given the ambiguity in my example above) [although I imagine that<br>
> populating the LR XMP namespace would be more appropriate for Lightroom<br>
> users]<br>
<br>
</div>Recent SVN versions are supporting LR XMP namespace.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>For export as well as import?</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div></div>