Possible to get the mapping of tags to group by family?

Started by jmccall, August 16, 2012, 12:26:52 PM

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jmccall

Is it possible to get the mapping of the group name in each family for all tags? Either as program output or in the documentation somewhere.

To put it another way, I'm looking for the large and exhaustive list that would be output if the -G switch was used without an input file specifiied and ExifTool simply listed all possible tags rather than returning an error. . e.g.
ExifTool.exe -all:all -G1

The same info. might also be discerned by having a switch which forced ExifTool to output all tags (in the requested group(s)), whether they are in the file or not. Then adding any dummy input file on the above command would show what I need.

Thanks
James McCall

Phil Harvey

Hi James,

The -listx option lists the ExifTool tag database in XML format. This contains this information you requested.

- Phil
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jmccall

Contains a mine of information, what I need and more.
Thanks.