Re: [Xmltv-devel] FW: FW: XMLTV grabber for Australia (fwd)

[Ed A. <ed...@me...>]

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Daniel Hall wrote:

>here are the new elements we've added to the original
>XMLTV DTD.

><!-- 'Ice XML Version' - (added by Ice TV) A version number indicating which
>XML format is being used. (the XML file may also include a different DTD)
>-->
><!ELEMENT ice-xml-version (#PCDATA)>

I think you should indicate in the doctype declaration at the top 
which version of the file format is being used - each version will 
have a different DTD, right?

>========================
>New "channel" elements: region_name, service_id, transport-stream-id,
>original-network-id
>========================
>
><!ELEMENT channel (display-name+, icon*, url*, region-name*, service-id*,
>transport-stream-id*, original-network-id*) >
>
><!-- region-name - (added by Ice TV) A user-friendly name for the location
>of the channel, such as "Sydney" or "Melbourne". -->
><!ELEMENT region-name (#PCDATA)>

Seems sensible enough - we could add this to the main xmltv.dtd if you 
like.

If this is human-readable text then to fit in with the rest of xmltv 
it should be something like

<!ELEMENT region-name (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST region-name lang CDATA #IMPLIED>

(FWIW, in Belgium for example I can see it being useful to give the 
name of a region in two different languages.)

><!-- service-id - (added by Ice TV) -->
><!ELEMENT service-id (#PCDATA)>
>
><!-- transport-stream-id - (added by Ice TV) -->
><!ELEMENT transport-stream-id (#PCDATA)>
>
><!-- original-network-id - (added by Ice TV) -->
><!ELEMENT original-network-id (#PCDATA)>

Can you explain what these mean?

Perhaps it would work as well to have some single 
'transmission-details' element storing a string whose meaning is 
application-defined.

>========================
>New "video" element: quality
>========================
>
><!ELEMENT video (present?, colour?, aspect?, quality?)>
>
><!-- quality: (added by Ice TV) 'HDTV' for High Definition. -->
><!ELEMENT quality (#PCDATA)>

Hmm, and is there an explicit value to say 'not HDTV'?

-- 
Ed Avis <ed...@me...>