Importing XMLTV file

[zehd]

zehd - I've just looked again at the examples from your xmltv file in the first post. Which grabber are you using? It's badly broken as far as I can tell.

The xml may well be valid but some of it doesn't make sense from an xmltv point of view. It's one of those situations - all xmltv is xml but not all xml is xmltv.

Cheers,
Brian

I'm looking at making a validator. Part of a project I'm doing with -oz-. Of course that means digging into and understanding what a valid xmltv xml file should be...

Just on what you see, what's most obvious? I'm using D1XMLTVGrabber.exe which is a free grabber for Australia.

(I'm also working with another couple of grabbers, but this one seems to be getting better data)

[bgowland]

Just on what you see, what's most obvious?

It just kind of looks wrong in the way that it's putting in the partial (blank) entries for things.

This for instance...

Code:

<sub-title lang="en" />

...either shouldn't be there at all or should be shown as...

Code:

<sub-title lang="en"></sub-title>

...to my mind. Also the blank value for rating just looks messy.

I have to admit, I've only seen the xmltv output of a few grabbers but they all seem to be tidier than this.

Cheers,
Brian

[Sheik Yerbouti]

It just kind of looks wrong in the way that it's putting in the partial (blank) entries for things.

This for instance...

Code:

<sub-title lang="en" />

...either shouldn't be there at all or should be shown as...

Code:

<sub-title lang="en"></sub-title>

...to my mind. Also the blank value for rating just looks messy.

I believe this is the default XML way to display empty nodes. But I don't know if it's the GBPVR-xmltv way.

Best regards,
Sheik Yerbouti

[sub]

Both are valid xml. Neither of these have been common in the xmltv files that I've seen in the last few years though. Infact, this is a first example I've seen that includes the tags when the data is not available. The reason I suspect it's usually been done this way is because there used to be samples on the xmltv.org home page that showed exactly this - shows in the same file with different amounts of data available, and only the tags included for the known data.

Its not worth worrying about though, the patch I posted on the last page will cope with it.

[zehd]

zehd, can you try the attached patch.

It doesnt like these tags being present but empty in this shortened form. Normally the tags just arent included in the file if the data isnt present. It doesnt mind them being there, but empty, as long as it was in the long form shown in bgowlands post above.

That did it.. thanks