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I have another problem with the Radio Times Data yesterday and today. I get this message from XMLTV EPG Viewer "The file "data.xml" does not appear to be a Radio Times XMLTV file". Also Web Scheduler gives the following:

Loading Data Please Wait...
About to load XMLTV Data from D:\TV Guide Data

Loading XMLTV data from D:\TV Guide Data\data.xml

There was an error loading the XMLTV Data!


org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the element content of the document.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source)
at GuideStore.loadXMLdata(GuideStore.java:662)
at GuideStore.loadXMLTV(GuideStore.java:386)
at EpgDataRes.reloadXMLTVdata(EpgDataRes.java:1842)
at EpgDataRes.getResponse(EpgDataRes.java:36)
at HTTPRequest.sendResponseData(HTTPRequest.java:83)
at RequestObject.run(RequestObject.java:135)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I do not know where the error lies, but the data has been very 'flakey" this year.

it would help if you could narrow down which channel the error occurs in. i should then be able to work around the problem

I've had a look today. Will spend more time tomorrow. There seem to be a lot of characters with accents on them within the data, is this allowed? I've never seen them before in my screen display.

Have found where it is. It's in the Film4 data:
Programme 2008 0306151000
In the <desc data right at the end of the line
at colunm 710 my editor shows 2 blank characters. Data in line is with 'B' for blank character:

.BB</desc>

Web Scheduler says the character is 0x00. MS Word will not load the data, neither will XMLTV GUI Viewer.

I can confirm that if I don't grab the Film4 listings, the data loads into WS fine.

Hi

I removed FILM4 and mine is working ok as well now, however looking at the Radio Times forum, there seems to be some service issues that are creating bugs.... have been for a good few weeks (8-10 weeks).

Many Thanks
Ashley

the latest svn build should fix all problems with invalid characters in the xml.
https://www.birtles.org.uk/svn/xmltv/co ... ltvGUI.exe
see http://www.birtles.org.uk/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=193 for login details
let me know if this fixes your problems

Hi

Downloaded, ran program get error "lua50.dll" could not be found.

Windows 2000 SP4.

Many Thanks
Ashley

alanbirtles wrote:the latest svn build should fix all problems with invalid characters in the xml.
https://www.birtles.org.uk/svn/xmltv/co ... ltvGUI.exe
see http://www.birtles.org.uk/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=193 for login details
let me know if this fixes your problems

you will need to put it in your xmltv directory

alanbirtles wrote:you will need to put it in your xmltv directory

Hi

Ive not fully tested this yet, however it does work, Radio Times site seems to have connection issues this morning as well.

Will keep you posted....

Many Thanks
Ashley

Happy to report everything's working fine here now.

Thanks for fixing it Alan.

Hi

Looks good with the new version, however theres a very minor issue, on Radio Times, one or more of the Sky Movies channels has illegal characters in them.

I use GBPVR which is .NET based, this means it tends to load the XML file then dump the rest after an illegal part, as you will see "SKY ONE" is after movies, results in no listings and no recordings.

Is there a way to replace illegal stuff with say a "#" in the file so at least it loads????

Many Thanks
Ashley

try the latest build and let me know if it fixes the issue

Hi

I'm using v3.09.04, latest on site is v3.09.03...?

alanbirtles wrote:try the latest build and let me know if it fixes the issue

I was also having problems with invalid charecters but this build has fixed it for me. Thanks. Will the console version get updated also?


Mick