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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:05:29 +1200, you wrote:

>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.

Thank you, that will be useful to make sure the other programs
processing the data can not get the encoding wrong.