TV_EXTRACTINFO_AR(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation TV_EXTRACTINFO_AR(1)NAMEtv_extractinfo_ar - read Spanish (Argentinean) language listings and
extract info from programme descriptions.
SYNOPSIStv_extractinfo_ar [--help] [--output FILE] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
Read XMLTV data and attempt to extract information from Spanish-
language programme descriptions, putting it into machine-readable form.
For example the human-readable text '(Repeticion)' 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 Spanish ('es'), it is ignored.
SEE ALSOxmltv(5).
AUTHOR
Mariano Cosentino, Mok@marianok.com.ar
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 Spanish 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.
This Spanish Version is heavily customized for the XML results from
tv_grab_ar (developed by Christian A. Rodriguez and postriorily updated
by Mariano S. Cosentino).
This file should probably be called tv_extractinfo_es, but I have not
tested it with any other spanish grabbers, so I don't want to be
presumptious.
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