On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Billy Biggs wrote:
>Basically I am debating with myself as to which I would rather see. I
>can envision three possibilities:
>
> <channel id="blahblah.here.com">
> <display-name>The Learning Channel</display-name>
> <display-name>TLC</display-name>
> <display-name>38</display-name>
> <call-sign cs="TLC"/>
> <number num="38"/>
> </channel>
>
> OR
>
> <channel id="blahblah.here.com">
> <display-name>The Learning Channel</display-name>
> <call-sign cs="TLC"/>
> <number num="38"/>
> </channel>
>
> OR
>
> <channel id="blahblah.here.com">
> <display-name>The Learning Channel</display-name>
> <display-name>TLC</display-name>
> <display-name>38</display-name>
> </channel>
Something should appear as a display-name only if it's a name commonly
used by a person to identify the channel. So in countries which have
historically had a small number of channels with assigned numbers,
putting '3' as the display-name is reasonable. '38' probably is not,
unless you often say 'I wonder what is on channel 38 this evening'.
Similar comments apply to call sign. If people sometimes say 'TLC'
and it's understood what this means, then that can be an additional
display-name. There's no problem with making it both call-sign and a
display-name.
So probably it should be something like
<display-name xml:lang="en">The Learning Channel</display-name>
<display-name>TLC</display-name>
<number num="38" />
<call-sign cs="TLC" />
given that 'TLC' is a possible human-recognized name for the channel
but '38' is not.
--
Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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