Request for clarification

Before I submit a pull request fixing a grabber
that seems to be doing things wrong, I would
like to verify a few things IRT the dtd.

As I read the spec, a <previously-shown> tag should
*only* be used for repeats, and should never be used
for shows known to be first showings of the episode
(although the definition of first showings may be a bit
vague by itself in some cases).  In the case I am
aware of, the previously-shown date is set to the
current date for these first showings (i.e. "we" are
the previously-shown).  This seems to violate
the dtd statements and intent.

In addition, as I read the spec, the <new> tag
should only be used for the very first episode
of a series (not every episode that is not a
repeat, that is determined by previously-shown?).
In fact that is explicitly stated as such, but I
want to be sure that that is what is really
intended.

Thanks for the discussion.