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Dear all,
First, let me briefly explain what I am trying to do:
XMLTV is a simplified XML language to describe TV listings. There are various methods to “grab” such listings and programs to display the data. A sample section of code looks like this:
<programme channel=”itv2.itv.co.uk” start=”200506291400 +0100″
stop=”200506291430 +0100″>
<title>Emmerdale</title>
<desc>Viv finds out that Scott was planning to leave the village with Zoe.
Andy worries that things are moving too quickly with Debbie. Lesley
discovers a skeleton in Rose’s closet.</desc>
<credits>
<actor>Deena Payne</actor>
<actor>Ben Freeman</actor>
<actor>Leah Bracknell</actor>
</credits>
<category>Soap</category>
<length units=”minutes”>30</length>
<video>
<aspect>16:9</aspect>
</video>
<subtitles type=”teletext” />
</programme>
I would like to use this in a Palm program called WhatsOn, but do not need all the data the grabber provides. In fact, the resulting file is too big (5 M? for my PDA. This is why I need to remove various elements like <credits>…</credits>, <video>…</video> etc. to reduce the file size as much as possible.
I have not found a HTML or XML editor yet that lets me define a replace or delete operation based on tags used. It would be even more comfortable if I could tell the editor in a kind of script or macro to remove everything except information contained in a predefined set of tags.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks,
Holger Laux