Have you considered using PerlScript in your ASP?

<% @LANGUAGE = PerlScript %> 
<% 
      # Embed your Perl right into your page ...

    use Image::IPTCInfo;

    chdir('demo_images');

    # ...

      # ... or if it needs to live seperately, 
      # capture it's output and redirect it to 
      # the browser.

      # This might be redundant: does STDOUT in
      # ASP go to the browser anyway?

    open XML, "-|"
      or exec "/path/to/your/script.pl"
      or die  "Can't exec script.pl: $!\n";

    $Response->Write($_) while <XML>;
%>
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If not, then ASPFAQ.com or one of the other ASP sites might be a better place to ask/look.

    --k.

Hi, tried that, got the error "no such scripting language, as this is linux and an isp out of my control, I'm not sure what they need to load to make this work. Any suggestions?

If you want to generate the XML files yourself, check out perl XML libraries.

Yours
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Dr. Mark Ceulemans
Senior Consultant
IT Masters, Belgium

hi this is the code of perl file have a look at it & tell me how to go

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Image::IPTCInfo;

chdir('demo_images');

my @files = ('burger_van.jpg', 'dog.jpg');

foreach my $filename (@files)
{
    # Create new IPTCInfo object for the file
    my $info = new Image::IPTCInfo($filename);

    # With this you can get a list of keywords...
    my $keywordsRef = $info->Keywords();

    # ...and specific attributes
    print "file      : $filename\n";
    print "caption   : " . $info->Attribute('caption/abstract') . "\n"
+;
    foreach $keyword (@$keywordsRef)
    {
        print "  keyword : $keyword\n";
    }

    # Create some mappings and extra data for messing
    # with XML and SQL exports.
    my %mappings = (
        'caption/abstract'    => 'caption',
        'by-line'            => 'byline',
        'city'                => 'city',
        'province/state'    => 'state');
    
    my %extra = ('extra1'   => 'value1',
                 'filename' => $filename);    
    # Demo XML export, with and without extra stuff
    print $info->ExportXML('photo');    
}



exit;
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Rajen Shah rajenrshah@rediffmail.com