xmltv_merge – merge multiple XMLTV-files into one xmltv_merge xmltvfile [xmltvfile ...] xmltv_merge merges the contents of multiple XMLTV-files. This can be useful if you grab XMLTV-data from multiple sources and want to create one big file, perhaps for use with `mythfilldatabase'. It also tries to output a file which adheres to the XMLTV DTD. As such, it can also be used as a filter to create such files from non-adhering XMLTV files. xmltv_merge can - roughly - handle multiple XMLTV-files containing data for the same channel; it does so by merging all information for a particular program (with a simple algorithm: for each field in the program structure, keep the field with the longest string). However, it does so only if it can match the program across the different XMLTV-sources: if one source lists a program `A', and another source lists a program `B', both on the same start time on the same channel, xmltv_merge uses a couple of methods to determine if A is the same as B (see the similarity() function in the script). If they don't match, the program data won't be merged and the entry from the XMLTV-source which is listed first on the commandline `wins'. Also, xmltv_merge doesn't (yet) fix overlaps, gaps or differing start/end times for the same program. If one source lists program `A' as starting on 09:30, and another source lists the same program `A' as starting on 09:27, these both end up in the output as different programs. Apart from a decent Python installation (this script was developed using Python 2.5.1 on Mac OS X 10.5), you'll need the lxml module from http://codespeak.net/lxml/

• handle overlaps/gaps
• make similarity thresholds configurable
• code cleanups