API request: Bulk-validating Photo IDs

Hey all,

FlickrExport for Aperture supports replacing photos on Flickr, by  
virtue of being able to store the Flickr ID from a previous upload  
and use that to replace.  One of the issues is that there's not a  
quick way to validate that all the photo IDs I'm planning to replace  
still exist on Flickr.  The user may have deleted the photo from the  
site and Aperture has stale information.

I could repeatedly call flickr.photos.getInfo, but that's (a) one  
call per photo and (b) returns much more data than I need to  
retrieve.  Would it be possible to add a lightweight bulk call that  
will take a list of photo IDs and return a structure like:

<photos>
<photo id="123456789" exists="1" />
<photo id="987654321" exists="0" />
</photos>

Thanks,
Fraser

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