Re: [Xmltv-devel] Proposal for new DTD element "crid"

[Robert E. <rm...@gm...>]

Hi Guys...   sorry I haven't been posting, I've been swamped at work and 
doing a lot of travel... this discussion was going to need more brain 
cycles than I could give, but I do like the way it's turning out.

One thing I'm still not clear about, is why CRID needs to be it's own 
field and can't be a system (or systems) on episode-num.

I guess I'm a pragmatist, but CRID will be useless if you can't get apps 
to use it.  Those apps are currently using episode-num for that 
purpose.  Some grabbers (tv_grab_na_dd for example) gets a unique ID 
from the data source and has put it in there.  (unique when it begins 
with EP anyway).   Apps are already looking for it there... if it's in 
episode-num I think it would gain more use.

Here's an entry from tv_grab_na_dd

   <programme start="20140524010000 -0600" stop="20140524013000 -0600" 
channel="I10149.labs.zap2it.com">
     <title lang="en">South Park</title>
     <sub-title lang="en">Die Hippie, Die</sub-title>
     <desc lang="en">The citizens of South Park seek Cartman's help to 
battle hippies.</desc>
     <credits>
       <actor>Trey Parker</actor>
       <actor>Matt Stone</actor>
     </credits>
     <date>20050316</date>
     <category lang="en">Sitcom</category>
     <category lang="en">Animated</category>
     <category lang="en">Series</category>
     <episode-num system="dd_progid">EP00229827.0142</episode-num>
     <episode-num system="onscreen">902</episode-num>
     <previously-shown start="20050316000000" />
     <subtitles type="teletext" />
     <rating system="VCHIP">
       <value>TV-MA</value>
     </rating>
     <rating system="advisory">
       <value>Graphic Language</value>
     </rating>
   </programme>


BTW, as far as Geoff's two proposals, I like B.

Robert