rfe: tb_grab_hu/tv_sort (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:47:25 +0100
From: "[ISO-8859-2] Ziegler Gábor" <ziegler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: rfe: tb_grab_hu/tv_sort 

Dear Ed,

It seems, that Port.hu, the data-source for tv_grab_hu has chnaged(?) 
its HTML page layout that tv_grab_hu parses. It has introduced(?) a new 
ad-banner into its page before the main eveneing film of each channel. 
This has caused the splitting of the HTML-table that holds the 
programme-data into two separate HTL table. In-between there is the 
advertisement..

This seems to result in an XML output file that seems to confuse 
tv_sort. It mis-detects each programme that happens to be listed  
*after* that table-split as "overlapping" programme and just removes it.

The final symptom is that tvtime always displays the programme just 
before the table split during the whole evening and whole night. That 
unfortunate programme seems to start usually arounde 19:00...19:30 and 
seems to last until dawn.

It is clear for me, that the table-parsing code has to be upgraded to be 
able to handle tables split into two  instead of single, nonolithic tables.

I am familiar with XML but totally unfamiliar with perl, so I cannot 
solve this problem easily, however, I guess that is has to be an easy-hack.

Who should I report to this problem who  is willing and able to fix this?

Thanks, in advance:
Gabor







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