Re: [icebox-devel] IceTV XML to TGD

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Quoting Peter Urbanec <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.

I had hoped that some of the work done for the JavaXMLTV to TGD stuff would be
useful, and that XML parsing wouldn't be too much work in Java (which has
proven to be great for cross-platform Toppy apps).

What are the complications in doing an IceTV XML parser? Is it just a comment on
how hard the c XML libraries are to use?

> 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.

I must admit I hadn't considered this, and it should be fairly straightforward
as you say. I'll download the source to ice_daemon tonight and have a look to
see how much work it would be to port.

> 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.

Where would the ICE EPG files be obtained from? Do IceTV provide those directly
as well as the XML feed? (Aplogies if these are basic questions, I've gone over
the IceTV website in some detail, but have not yet downloaded the sourceforge
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.

True.

Fred