xmltv - new line (1 Viewer)

[steo]

Hi,

I am using the xmltv-plugin togehter with Mediaportal 1.13.
The "tvguide.xml" is getting generated by self-made powershell script.
I have attached en example file.

The problem is that all line breaks and new lines inside the "description" getting ignored from media portal.
I think they are getting removed from the plugin. Is there a way to leave the strings untouched?

regards

Steffen

 

[Vasilich]

as you use self-made script, then easiest way would be to use tag <br> as line ending sign in XML (exactly to say, you need to use the encoded form "&lt;br&gt;" without quotes), generated by your script. This is because the conversion does following:

      StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();

      System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(html, writer);

      String DecodedString = writer.ToString();
      strippedHtml = DecodedString.Replace("<br>", "\n");

don't ask me why it was designed to decode HTML though we are use XML on this place....

 

[mm1352000]

@Vasilich
Good suggestion, but I don't think it will work due to the later code:
https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi.../Plugins/XmlTvImport/XMLTVImport.cs#L698-L702

 

[steo]

thanks Vasilich.
@mm1352000: I just wanted to write the same but you where the faster one
I will try it with <br> in the afternoon but as you already said it will be replace later in the code.
Is there no one using xmltv-files with line breaks?

 

[Vasilich]

@mm1352000 you are right
wtf, do we really need this conversion?

 

[pünktchen]

Hi,

I am using the xmltv-plugin togehter with Mediaportal 1.13.
The "tvguide.xml" is getting generated by self-made powershell script.
I have attached en example file.

The problem is that all line breaks and new lines inside the "description" getting ignored from media portal.
I think they are getting removed from the plugin. Is there a way to leave the strings untouched?

regards

Steffen

Download "xmltvimport_mit_Zeilenumbruch.zip" from this post: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/index.php?posts/1096789 and replace the dll in your TVServer installation directory. After a service restart and reimport of your xml, the line breaks should be there.

 

[steo]

@Püntchen: Great! It´s working...
Any reason why this is not implemented in stable version or are there any plans to do that?

 

[mm1352000]

wtf, do we really need this conversion?

Presumably it was done to minimise space usage in the UI/skin, but that's a complete guess. IMHO titles and episode names should never contain new lines (ie. current code is good); maybe for descriptions it's arguable.

Any reason why this is not implemented in stable version or are there any plans to do that?

Nobody has asked for it until now.

 

[Vasilich]

titles and episode names should never contain new lines (ie. current code is good); maybe for descriptions it's arguable.

surely for titles of any kind the conversion is needed. But descriptions definitely need support of CR/LF. AFAIK the decision whether to show line feeds or not can be taken for each skin (though i can be wrong there).

 

[mm1352000]

AFAIK the decision whether to show line feeds or not can be taken for each skin (though i can be wrong there).

Can skins remove CR and/or LF if they want to?