ValidateFile(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 ValidateFile(3pm)

NAME
XMLTV::ValidateFile - Validates an XMLTV file DESCRIPTION
Utility library that validates that a file is correct according to http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XMLTVFormat. EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
All these functions are exported on demand. LoadDtd Load the xmltv dtd. Takes a single parameter which is the name of the xmltv dtd file. LoadDtd must be called before ValidateFile can be called. ValidateFile Validate that a file is valid according to the XMLTV dtd and try to check that it contains valid information. ValidateFile takes a filename as parameter and optionally also a day and an offset and prints error messages to STDERR. ValidateFile returns a list of errors that it found with the file. Each error takes the form of a keyword: ValidateFile checks the following: notwell The file is not well-formed XML. notdtd The file does not follow the XMLTV DTD. unknownid No channel-entry found for a channelid that is used in a programme-entry. duplicatechannel More than one channel-entry found for a channelid. noprogrammes No programme entries were found in the file. channelnoprogramme There are no programme entries for one of the channels listed with a channel-entry. invalidid An xmltvid does not look like a proper id, i.e. it does not match /^[-a-zA-Z0-9]+(.[-a-zA-Z0-9]+)+$/. noid A programme-entry without an id was found. emptytitle A programme entry with an empty or missing title was found. emptydescription A programme entry with an empty desc-element was found. The desc-element shall be omitted if there is no description. badstart A programme entry with an invalid start-time was found. badstop A programme entry with an invalid stop-time was found. badepisode A programme entry with an invalid episode number was found. badiso8859 The file is encoded in iso-8859 but contains characters that have no meaning in iso-8859 (or are control characters). If it's iso-8859-1 aka Latin 1 it might be some characters in windows-1252 encoding. badutf8 The file is encoded in utf-8 but contains characters that look strange. 1) Mis-encoded single characters represented with [EF][BF][BD] bytes 2) Mis-encoded single characters represented with [C3][AF][C2][BF][C2][BD] bytes 3) Mis-encoded single characters in range [C2][80-9F] If no errors are found, an empty list is returned. BUGS
It is currently necessary to specify the path to the xmltv dtd-file. This should not be necessary. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Mattias Holmlund. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. perl v5.14.2 2011-06-22 ValidateFile(3pm)