[Xmltv-devel] XMLTV DTD 0.6

[Tom Z. <to...@ne...>]

Hi once more,

Since I mentioned DTD 0.6 in another thread today, I thought I'd
use the opportunity to ask what the status of this DTD is.  Are
there any plans for migration or is DTD 0.6 essentially dead?

Here's a link to the DTD I'm talking about:
http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/xmltv/xmltv/todo/xmltv-0.6.dtd


I've been supporting DTD 0.6 in nxtvepg for several years now, both
for export and import of data.  With DTD 0.5 I had some problems to
represent all the data types of my source (i.e. Nextview EPG - don't
recall which exactly, but I can provide a list if needed.)  I had
much less trouble with 0.6 in that regard.

I would certainly support the move toward DTD 0.6.  It's actually
not that hard to write a parser that can read both formats, since
they're not that different. The only minor problem I found is
auto-detection of the format since there's no version identifier,
as far as I can tell. (My parser code is in C and available as
demo: http://nxtvepg.sourceforge.net/tmp/tv_to_text-0.4.tar.gz)

bye,
-tom