On Fri, 9 May 2003, Jeff Dairiki wrote:
>E.g. if we see only <part number='2' of='2'/>, without having also
>seen part number 1, we (the convertor/scraper) can't determine which
>of the two cases we have.
Ah well, that's probably too bad.
>...so one might want to allow a way to maintain the ambiguity in the
>new DTD...
Only if this is really a regular occurrence. I think the part
handling is complicated enough already.
>The listing sources I've dealt with provide no season or
>episode-within-season information. They only provide the "part n or
>m" information, often, I think, in a form that's somewhat ambiguous
>as to whether it's two separate episodes, or a split program.
Well the source you mentioned with separate <program> and <schedule>
does provide this info.
I will have to grep through current grabber output for 'part X of Y'
strings and for episode numbers to see what is intended.
I don't think we need to think up a heuristic for handling ambiguous
part information, if it really is common then the format can be
extended to handle it and if it is uncommon then we can just pick
nth-part arbitrarily.
>>Whereas production year and release year are clearly defined,
>They are clearly defined, but, zap2it (the HTML listings) I've dealt
>with just give a year --- it's not clear which of the two it is,
>though I suppose I could guess.
I think we worked this out - the year was sometimes different to
IMDB. So whichever imdb doesn't use, tv_grab_na uses. Sorry I don't
remember which was which.
>Most of the time (I think) the two values (production and release
>year) have the same value (+/- a year) so the distinction is not
>necessarily that important.
I added it because tv_imdb started showing the mismatch. It is
important, I think, it wouldn't do to have two different years for a
film.
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Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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