title: How do I get the guids of taxonomy/metadata terms for updating lists?
body: <p>I'm integrating a legacy system with SP2010 using a literal SOAP calls. I can do a call such as CopyIntoItems or UpdateListItems and doing so, set metadata fields by providing a Fields node such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;Fields&gt;
         &lt;FieldInformation Type="Note" DisplayName="Country_0"
                           Id="de1e6424-7a8a-42a5-8d21-73402fe2e609"
                           Value="UK|91c89925-16e6-4d41-9e71-ec45e8f2a113" /&gt;
         ...
    &lt;/Fields&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the Value attribute, I have to give the guid of the taxonomy or metadata term. That works fine in the above example since I happen to know the guid of the term UK. However, how can I dynamically figure out what the guid of some other value, say France for example, would be? I was thinking of making a utility to get them all and cache them on my system somehow so I can look them up easily, but where are they defined?</p>
  
  <p>Possibly a stupid question, I get the feeling I've missed something...</p>