SMPTE 434-2015

This standard specifies an encoding of the header metadata, partition multiplex structure and index tables of MXF files as XML documents. It specifies methods to support descriptive metadata plug-ins, dark metadata and private and future public extensions to the MXF specification.

This standard applies to the lossless representation of the metadata contained in MXF files as XML documents.

This standard applies to the interchange of the information of the header metadata, partition multiplex structure and index tables of MXF files as XML documents where the receiving application supports all XML namespaces from which there are elements in the XML document.