[KimDaBa] Re: Anyone converted a PhotoShop Elements 3 database to Kimdaba?

[Stephen J. Gowdy]

Hi again,
	I've found a perl script that will help a lot with this. It was to
take PSE3 (and other similar things) catalogues and upload them to a web
thing call "gallery" (it is called album2gallery.pl). I should be able to
modify it to generate a kimdaba xml file. I started looking through the
index.xml file I have and realise it also contains a lot of configuration
information. Is there some default I should just dump in? That from the
demo perhaps? Or if I leave it empty will kimdaba add it?
	It also seems that there is no way to have a real tree of tags. Is
that right? Is there any way to add new top level catagories (eg Events).
>From example in PSE3 I have something like;

Favourites
  1 Star
  2 Star
  ...
Hidden # PSE3 doesn't show these images by default
People
  Animals
     Cat
  Family
     George
     George's Side
	Granny Mike
  Friends
     US
        Mike
        Kids
          Mike
     UK
        Sebastian
        Kids
          Gerry
Places
  UK
     Glasgow
  Trips
     Santa Clara
     Palo Alto
  Homes
     Berkeley
     Palo Alto
Events
  Parties
     George
Other
  Taken By
     Sebastian

	With the way I think kimdaba does this it would work as some of
these tags have the same name. Is that right?
	I see there is a perl module for reading the xml file, there isn't
one to help write it, is there?

							regards,

							Stephen.

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:

> Hmm, so I've made some progress on this by exporting the database as xml
> from Access. It is a bit tricky. I found infomration on google (which is
> now only in its cache) on decoding the array and it seems to work (at
> least for one test picture it did give me the number of the only tag it
> has, the other number it gave me for a non-tag didn't seem to match what
> I'd expect so perhaps I don't understand something). Anyway, so it seems
> possible but it probably will not be completely automatic (I did the
> export, chopped up the file, used perl to decode base64 and then use a c
> program to turn that into a list of ints which correspond to the index in
> a table...). I'll see what I can do with this but don't expect anything
> soon...
>
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >         I've been using photoshop elements for some time but Kimdaba looks
> > very much like what I'd like to use on Linux. Before I start trying to
> > figure out if this is possible, has anyone done it? I had a look through
> > the last few months of posts (is there a searchable index anywhere?) and
> > couldn't see anything relevant and google didn't help.
> >
> >                                                 regards,
> >
> >                                                 Stephen.
> >
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|Stephen J. Gowdy                     | SLAC, MailStop 34,       |
|http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road,     |
|http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy      | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA |
|EMail: gowdy at slac.stanford.edu       | Tel: +1 650 926 3144     |
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