Population of XML file from bridge?

Generate a flash gallery and examine the output - you'll see a couple of XML files including much of the info you mention.

Thanks for the info. There are flash galleries that come with bridge, but how would you find out how they are generating XML? I would think that is code inside the program itself that is not available for viewing. Anyway, here is the xml that is needed. Here is the basic workflow I need.

1. Add a brief description to each photo using one of the attribute fields in bridge.
2. Select pictures in bridge in the order you want them to appear.
3. Resize the pictures and optimize them for the web at a consistent size.
4. Create a thumbnail graphic.
5. Copy the images and thumbnails to a specified directory.
6. Create an xml file as shown below.

Again, thanks in advance for any help!

<gallery>
<setup path="../images/"/>
<item>
<thumb>t6.jpg</thumb>
<img>6.jpg</img>
<caption>Giraffe! </caption>
</item>
<item>
<thumb>t12.jpg</thumb>
<img>12.jpg</img>
<caption>A pair of parrots</caption>
</item>
<item>
<thumb>t11.jpg</thumb>
<img>11.jpg</img>
<caption>Playing pandas</caption>
</item>
</gallery>

It may not be a scripting question. In the case of 3, have you not looked at the Flash galleries that come with Bridge? These are powered by XML data and I'd look at the templates and how they generate the XML.

Can you explain in more detail what you will be typing in - is it just one metadata field, and perhaps give an example of what the resulting xml file will contain. Also when will you be typing it - do you envisage doing this individually for each image one at a time? It is easy to write text files with Bridge or Photoshop so 3 should be no problem, 1 and 2 will have to be done in Photoshop but they could be contained in an action which Bridge then runs batch over.

On the other hand Bridge has some pretty efficient built in mechanisms for populating image metadata so perhaps you do not need to make a custom xml file.

Andrew