Re: [icebox-devel] IceTV XML to TGD

[Peter U. <ice...@ur...>]

Fredrick Meunier wrote:

> Is there any interest in producing a converter from IceTV XML to TGD  
> files? It would provide an inexpensive way to take advantage of the  
> IceTV service as a Mac user.


I am sure that there would be interest in a light-weight Open Source 
IceTV XML parser, but am not aware of any work being done on that. It's 
a lot of work. I wanted one to use on the SLUG.

A better approach to get a Toppy solution for the Mac would be to port 
the existing ice_daemon to OSX. After that you just need to port puppy 
or make use of Nathan's MacTF utility to transfer the flat file ICE EPG 
files to the Toppy, where the ICE TAP will process the files.

The other option is to set up a cron job to run wget once a day to 
retrieve the ICE EPG files and then send these to the Toppy. All the 
required information is already present in the published source code.

Both of these approaches are almost trivial in comparison with coding an 
XML parser, but will require the use of a command line, rather than just 
a point-n-click approach. I guess dressing the above with a GUI could be 
an interesting project for a Mac hacker and would result in something 
acceptable to typical Mac users.

If you have the skills to implement something like this, please feel 
free to get stuck into it. Don't hesitate to post technical questions if 
you get stuck.

Good luck.