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Hi James.

SO,  I've searching the web looking for the ultimate Norwegian tv-guide site, but to no avail. There are a few good ones, where of dagbladet.no is the best one yet.. but it does not contain genre-listings, and the program info is somewhat lacking...

I found sites containing better "extended" info, and genres, but no rerun-tags, and few epnumber listings.

To the point: I've got an idea...

What if webepg parsed two sites, and then merged the program data?

The identification of programs should be easy enough by matching the time slots.

Then add missing tags (epnumbering, rerun, descriptions and like.)

Choose the "longest" program description.

This could be done in more than one way:

- mp-database import, and webepg taking an argument for choosing what "webepg.xml" template to choose. Webepg runs twice.

- Webepg takes an argument for choosing what "webepg.xml" template to choose. Webepg runs twice spitting out two xml-files. Then imports them into another app that does the merging.

(best case) - Webepg takes "country-templates" that points to "site-templates" to insure consistency. The entire process is done internally (using objects??) behaving like before.

Let me know what you think--- This sure would make the mp-epg one of the most comprehensive available.