FYI – A better method to read XMP…

FYI – My NextGEN Gallery code contains the following:

function extract_XMP( $filename ) {

                //TODO:Require a lot of memory, could be better
                ob_start();
                @readfile($filename);
        $source = ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();

                $start = strpos( $source, "<x:xmpmeta"   );
                $end   = strpos( $source, "</x:xmpmeta>" );
                if ((!$start === false) && (!$end === false)) {
                        $lenght = $end - $start;
                        $xmp_data = substr($source, $start, $lenght+12 );
                        unset($source);
                        return $xmp_data;
                }

                unset($source);
                return false;
        }

May I suggest having a look at https://surniaulula.com/2013/04/09/read-adobe-xmp-xml-in-php/ for a better performing solution? ??

Thanks,

js.

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