tv_sort(1p) [debian man page]

TV_SORT(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       TV_SORT(1p)

NAME

       tv_sort - Sort XMLTV listings files by date, and add stop times.

SYNOPSIS

       tv_sort [--help] [--by-channel] [--output FILE] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Read XMLTV data and write out the same data sorted in date order.  Where stop times of programmes are missing, guess them from the start
       time of the next programme on the same channel. For the last programme of a channel, no stop time can be added.

       Tv_sort also performs some sanity checks such as making sure no two programmes on the same channel overlap.

       --output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output

       --by-channel sort first by channel id, then by date within each
		       channel.

       --duplicate-error If the input contains the same programme more than once,
			    consider this as an error. Default is to silently
			    ignore duplicate entries.

       The time sorting is by start time, then by stop time.  Without --by-channel, if start times and stop times are equal then two programmes
       are sorted by internal channel id.  With --by-channel, channel id is compared first and then times.

       You can think of tv_sort as converting XMLTV data into a canonical form, useful for diffing two files.

EXAMPLES

       At a typical Unix shell or Windows command prompt:

       tv_sort <in.xml >out.xml
       tv_sort in.xml --output out.xml

       These are different ways of saying the same thing.

AUTHOR

       Ed Avis, ed@membled.com

perl v5.14.2							    2006-03-02							       TV_SORT(1p)

TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1p)

NAME

       tv_extractinfo_en - read English-language listings and extract info from programme descriptions.

SYNOPSIS

       tv_extractinfo_en [--help] [--output FILE] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Read XMLTV data and attempt to extract information from English-language programme descriptions, putting it into machine-readable form.
       For example the human-readable text '(repeat)' in a programme description might be replaced by the XML element <previously-shown>.

       --output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output

       This tool also attempts to split multipart programmes into their constituents, by looking for a description that seems to contain lots of
       times and titles.  But this depends on the description following one particular style and is useful only for some listings sources
       (Ananova).

       If some text is marked with the 'lang' attribute as being some language other than English ('en'), it is ignored.

SEE ALSO

       xmltv(5).

AUTHOR

       Ed Avis, ed@membled.com

BUGS

       Trying to parse human-readable text is always error-prone, more so with the simple regexp-based approach used here.  But because TV listing
       descriptions usually conform to one of a few set styles, tv_extractinfo_en does reasonably well.  It is fairly conservative, trying to
       avoid false positives (extracting 'information' which isn't really there) even though this means some false negatives (failing to extract
       information and leaving it in the human-readable text).

       However, the leftover bits of text after extracting information may not form a meaningful English sentence, or the punctuation may be
       wrong.

       On the two listings sources currently supported by the XMLTV package, this program does a reasonably good job.  But it has not been tested
       with every source of anglophone TV listings.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-05-07						     TV_EXTRACTINFO_EN(1p)