[mythtvnz] xmltv-proc-nz problem with MHEG epg data

[David Moore]

On 30/06/12 23:13, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:33:02 +1200, you wrote:
>
>> On 29/06/12 12:17, David Moore wrote:
>>> On 29/06/12 04:46, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>>> I run xmltv-proc-nz 0.5.8 on my ChoiceTV data that I get from MHEG. At
>>>> the moment, it has been having a problem with some characters in that
>>>> data:
...
>
> The loss of the epgsnoop headers and their "date=" field also broke my
> EPG script in another way - it was using that date to compare the
> downloaded EPG data to the latest epgsnoop derived data I had on file.
> Without that "date=", my script was getting the local epgsnoop data,
> and as I do not normally run epgsnoop it was getting the same old data
> from last week and I was running out of EPG in MythTV.
>
> I have fixed that now, so that if the epgsnoop "date=" field is
> missing, I use the timestamp from the downloaded file.
>

FYI I'm planning to add two header lines to the mhegepgsnoop output: the 
xml and doctype declarations. Like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd">

Rest of the file format will be unchanged.