[mythtvnz] nice listings weird html(?) in feed

Hadley Rich mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Fri, 1 Jun 2007 13:08:57 +1200


On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:02:13 Steve Hodge wrote:
> There is a standard. It specifies the character encoding schemes used but
> it doesn't put any restrictions on the content of descriptions beyond that.
> So while it is not intended that EIT data contain HTML content I don't
> believe it's forbidden by the standard. And of course Sky can do whatever
> they want anyway.

Yeah, since Sky's only concern is their STBs we are just lucky we can pull the 
data easily.

I've noticed the HTML in the data and I haven't seen it effect MythTV at all 
yet so haven't worried about it. I will keep an eye on it and if it does 
cause any problems it can easily be stripped out.

hads

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