backslash character corrupts TVGuide

[Ahrand]

Can anyone confirm that a backslash (/) character in the channel-id or channel display names causes the TVGuide to corrupt ("invalid object reference" and crashes)

With quite a few channels time sharing these days,
that is not an uncommen setp e.g. (excerpt from my xmltv.xml file ):
</channel>
<channel id="nbc/ngc">
<display-name>NBC/Nat.Geo.</display-name>
</channel>

It will import (update) this EPG data fine, but once you start browsing the TVGuide and you hit this channel, it crashes.

Manually changing the name to something like : NBC - Nat.Geo. works around the problem.

[reven]

its your xmltv guides fault, it should have a "/" in it for the display-name, it needs to replace it with the special character for a blackslash (since the backslash is a reserved character), so the xmltv generator should replace all of the "/" used for names etc with the correct xml code (which i dont know off the top of my head, but for example you need to replace every "&" with "&amp;").

[Ahrand]

OK Thanks, I'll let the XMLTV generator know.