[Xmltv-devel] xmltv ; multiple elements (fwd)

[Ed Avis]

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Ed Avis <***@membled.com>


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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:46:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Jan van Straaten <***@yahoo.com>
To: "***@membled.com" <***@membled.com>
Subject: xmltv ; multiple elements

Hi Ed,
 
let me introduce myself :
I am the maker of the multi-site xmltv grabber 'WebGrab+Plus' or just 'WG++' in short.
(A somewhat outdated introduction @http://www.servercare.nl/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=f9fb19de%2D694c%2D4b82%2D993a%2Dff0ca97ea371&ID=98 and on various other places)
 
On request of a number of users I am preparing a post-grabber (one that runs after the regular grab) that collects additional data for selected shows from an online movies/series database, like IMDb.
 
The data elements collected are:
 
mdb-title
mdb-star-rating
mdb-plot
mdb-comment-summary
mdb-review
mdb-description
 
The program allows to merge this additional data with the xmltv from the regular grab in the following xmltv elements:
 
title
star-rating
description
review
 
The way this is done is determined by config settings that allocate these mdb-data elements.
These settings allow (in principle) to - either add the data to an existing element - or create an additional element -or both.
 
From xmltv.dtd it is clear that multiple <title> and multiple <star-rating> elements are allowed and rather frequently done.
I am unsure about <desc> and <review> , hence the following questions:
 
--- Should I allow to specify multiple <desc> and <review> elements?
--- Am I right that <review> has no lang attribute?
 
thanks     Jan van Straaten

[Nick Morrott]

Hi Jan,

Not sure if you've had any direct responses, but my apologies for not
having replied sooner.