Suggestion for dealing with short items in TVguide

[AndyCherry]

The way that ananova.com deals with the short programmes is to concatenate them to the previous programme and identify it as "followed by" - e.g.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
<programme start="20040105183000 GMT" stop="20040105190000 GMT" channel="15" x-broadcast="26643841" x-programme="108707909">
<title lang="en">South Today</title>
<category lang="en" x-code="2000">General News/Current Affairs</category>
<category lang="en" x-code="2###">News/Current Affairs</category>
<video>
<present>yes</present>
 <aspect>16:9</aspect>
</video>
<subtitles type="teletext"></subtitles>
</programme>
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and

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
<programme start="20040105185945 GMT" stop="20040105190000 GMT" channel="42" x-broadcast="26638722" x-programme="108706222">
<title lang="en">Weather</title>
<category lang="en" x-code="2100">News/Weather Report</category>
<category lang="en" x-code="2###">News/Current Affairs</category>
<subtitles type="teletext"></subtitles>
</programme>
[/QUOTE]

Could be show as

South Today
followed by Weather

- in the ananova xmltv feed it's easy to see which should be &quot;followed by&quot; as the second programme is &quot;embedded&quot; in the first programme ends (i.e. they end at the same time - in this case both finish at 7pm.)

This adds a greater level of complexity in reading the xmltv file, but would &quot;read&quot; more like the TV schedules.

Cheers,
Andy

[sub]

Ok, I'll look into this for the next release.