On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Jerry Veldhuis wrote:
>Ed is suggesting for the xmltv format to support a
>unknown programme entry that a grabber can use to
>fill in gaps in the schedule it couldn't get data for.
>
>Ed, where is this on your todo list ?
It should be part of 'file format changes' although I hadn't added it
explicitly. I won't put it in until the big DTD overhaul.
>Can you describe how it should be used ?
I don't want to start the discussion on the new file format until
0.5.3 is safely released (and maybe not even then, depending on
whether further 0.5.x are likely). And I haven't decided exactly what
it's going to be like (that would be pre-empting the discussion). But
to give you a rough idea, I was thinking of having 'timeslot' elements
each of which contains one or more 'programme' elements. Normally
there would be one programme per timeslot but some cases like
'News; Weather' require two.
In special circumstances you may replace 'programme' with
'unknown'. To say that the whole of one dayion a given channel is
unknown you could write
<timeslot start="20021028000000 UTC" stop="20021029000000 UTC">
<channel id="bbc1.bbc.co.uk" />
<contains>
<unknown />
</contains>
</timeslot>
or something like that. The syntax is not so important.
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Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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