diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index fba3aa1a..42272163 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
-1.5.6
+1.6.0
 =====
+2019-02-03
 
-closes #69.
+Closes #69.
 Corrected EN 16931 XMP Schema Extension header
+Can now read xmp metadata via ZUGFeRDImporter getXMP
+Exporting valid EN16931 Factur-X when version/profile set to 2/EN16931 mode
+
 
 1.5.5
 =====
diff --git a/doc/MustangDev.en.odt b/doc/MustangDev.en.odt
index 0a65fcea..b9b50a21 100644
Binary files a/doc/MustangDev.en.odt and b/doc/MustangDev.en.odt differ
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDImporter.java b/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDImporter.java
index 07315afd..b71f4b1f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDImporter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDImporter.java
@@ -33,17 +33,11 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
 import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
-import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
-import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
-import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression;
-import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
-
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentNameDictionary;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDEmbeddedFilesNameTreeNode;
@@ -79,6 +73,7 @@ public class ZUGFeRDImporter {
 	private boolean amountFound;
 	private boolean extractAttempt = false;
 	private boolean parsed = false;
+	private String xmpString = null; // XMP metadata
 	private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(ZUGFeRDImporter.class.getName());
 
 	/**
@@ -98,6 +93,21 @@ public class ZUGFeRDImporter {
 			ioe.printStackTrace();
 		}
 	}
+	
+	static String convertStreamToString(java.io.InputStream is) {
+		// source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/309424/how-do-i-read-convert-an-inputstream-into-a-string-in-java referring to
+		// https://community.oracle.com/blogs/pat/2004/10/23/stupid-scanner-tricks
+	    java.util.Scanner s = new java.util.Scanner(is).useDelimiter("\\A");
+	    return s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
+	}
+	
+	/***
+	 * get xmp metadata of the PDF, null if not available
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public String getXMP() {
+		return xmpString;
+	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Extracts a ZUGFeRD invoice from a PDF document represented by an input
@@ -112,6 +122,10 @@ public class ZUGFeRDImporter {
 		try (PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(pdfStream)) {
 			// PDDocumentInformation info = doc.getDocumentInformation();
 			PDDocumentNameDictionary names = new PDDocumentNameDictionary(doc.getDocumentCatalog());
+			//start
+			InputStream XMP=doc.getDocumentCatalog().getMetadata().exportXMPMetadata();
+			
+			xmpString=convertStreamToString(XMP);		    
 			etn = names.getEmbeddedFiles();
 			if (etn == null) {
 				return;
@@ -134,6 +148,7 @@ public class ZUGFeRDImporter {
 		}
 	}
 
+	
 	private void extractFiles(Map<String, PDComplexFileSpecification> names) throws IOException {
 		for (String filename : names.keySet()) {
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/MustangReaderWriterTest.java b/src/test/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/MustangReaderWriterTest.java
index 32bcfeb3..b7a63266 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/MustangReaderWriterTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/MustangReaderWriterTest.java
@@ -378,6 +378,81 @@ public class MustangReaderWriterTest extends TestCase implements IZUGFeRDExporta
 
 		String	amount = zi.getAmount();
 		
+		assertEquals("<?xpacket begin=\"\" id=\"W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d\"?>\n" + 
+				"    <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x=\"adobe:ns:meta/\">\n" + 
+				"      <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\">\n" + 
+				"        <rdf:Description rdf:about=\"\" xmlns:xmpMM=\"http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/\">\n" + 
+				"          <xmpMM:InstanceID>uuid:6776DD95-DAF6-768E-DAE6-2697750D95C5</xmpMM:InstanceID>\n" + 
+				"          <xmpMM:DocumentID>uuid:47380404-5938-FE2C-8F0B-B505DCE43BF5</xmpMM:DocumentID>\n" + 
+				"        </rdf:Description>\n" + 
+				"        <rdf:Description rdf:about=\"\" xmlns:zf=\"urn:ferd:pdfa:CrossIndustryDocument:invoice:1p0#\">\n" + 
+				"          <zf:ConformanceLevel>BASIC</zf:ConformanceLevel>\n" + 
+				"          <zf:DocumentFileName>ZUGFeRD-invoice.xml</zf:DocumentFileName>\n" + 
+				"          <zf:DocumentType>INVOICE</zf:DocumentType>\n" + 
+				"          <zf:Version>1.0</zf:Version>\n" + 
+				"        </rdf:Description>\n" + 
+				"        <rdf:Description rdf:about=\"\" xmlns:pdfaExtension=\"http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/\" xmlns:pdfaSchema=\"http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#\" xmlns:pdfaProperty=\"http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#\">\n" + 
+				"          <pdfaExtension:schemas>\n" + 
+				"            <rdf:Bag>\n" + 
+				"              <rdf:li rdf:parseType=\"Resource\">\n" + 
+				"                <pdfaSchema:schema>ZUGFeRD PDFA Extension Schema</pdfaSchema:schema>\n" + 
+				"                <pdfaSchema:namespaceURI>urn:ferd:pdfa:CrossIndustryDocument:invoice:1p0#</pdfaSchema:namespaceURI>\n" + 
+				"                <pdfaSchema:prefix>zf</pdfaSchema:prefix>\n" + 
+				"                <pdfaSchema:property>\n" + 
+				"                  <rdf:Seq>\n" + 
+				"                    <rdf:li rdf:parseType=\"Resource\">\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:name>DocumentFileName</pdfaProperty:name>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:valueType>Text</pdfaProperty:valueType>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:category>external</pdfaProperty:category>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:description>name of the embedded XML invoice file</pdfaProperty:description>\n" + 
+				"                    </rdf:li>\n" + 
+				"                    <rdf:li rdf:parseType=\"Resource\">\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:name>DocumentType</pdfaProperty:name>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:valueType>Text</pdfaProperty:valueType>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:category>external</pdfaProperty:category>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:description>INVOICE</pdfaProperty:description>\n" + 
+				"                    </rdf:li>\n" + 
+				"                    <rdf:li rdf:parseType=\"Resource\">\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:name>Version</pdfaProperty:name>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:valueType>Text</pdfaProperty:valueType>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:category>external</pdfaProperty:category>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:description>The actual version of the ZUGFeRD XML schema</pdfaProperty:description>\n" + 
+				"                    </rdf:li>\n" + 
+				"                    <rdf:li rdf:parseType=\"Resource\">\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:name>ConformanceLevel</pdfaProperty:name>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:valueType>Text</pdfaProperty:valueType>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:category>external</pdfaProperty:category>\n" + 
+				"                      <pdfaProperty:description>The conformance level of the embedded ZUGFeRD data</pdfaProperty:description>\n" + 
+				"                    </rdf:li>\n" + 
+				"                  </rdf:Seq>\n" + 
+				"                </pdfaSchema:property>\n" + 
+				"              </rdf:li>\n" + 
+				"            </rdf:Bag>\n" + 
+				"          </pdfaExtension:schemas>\n" + 
+				"        </rdf:Description>\n" + 
+				"        <rdf:Description rdf:about=\"\" xmlns:pdfaid=\"http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/\">\n" + 
+				"          <pdfaid:part>3</pdfaid:part>\n" + 
+				"          <pdfaid:conformance>B</pdfaid:conformance>\n" + 
+				"        </rdf:Description>\n" + 
+				"        <rdf:Description rdf:about=\"\" xmlns:xmp=\"http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/\">\n" + 
+				"          <xmp:CreateDate>2014-07-11T13:39:46+02:00</xmp:CreateDate>\n" + 
+				"          <xmp:ModifyDate>2014-07-11T13:39:46+02:00</xmp:ModifyDate>\n" + 
+				"          <xmp:CreatorTool>zugferd_invoice.java</xmp:CreatorTool>\n" + 
+				"          <xmp:MetadataDate>2014-07-11T13:39:46+02:00</xmp:MetadataDate>\n" + 
+				"        </rdf:Description>\n" + 
+				"        <rdf:Description rdf:about=\"\" xmlns:pdf=\"http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/\">\n" + 
+				"          <pdf:Producer>PDFlib Personalization Server 9.0.3 (JDK 1.6/Mac OS X-10.6 64)</pdf:Producer>\n" + 
+				"        </rdf:Description>\n" + 
+				"        <rdf:Description rdf:about=\"\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\">\n" + 
+				"          <dc:title>\n" + 
+				"            <rdf:Alt>\n" + 
+				"              <rdf:li xml:lang=\"x-default\">ZUGFeRD Rechnung $Revision: 1.13 $</rdf:li>\n" + 
+				"            </rdf:Alt>\n" + 
+				"          </dc:title>\n" + 
+				"        </rdf:Description>\n" + 
+				"      </rdf:RDF>\n" + 
+				"    </x:xmpmeta>\n" + 
+				"<?xpacket end=\"r\"?>", zi.getXMP());
 		// this resembles the data written in MustangReaderWriterCustomXMLTest
 		assertEquals(amount, "1005.55");