XMLTV Format?

Hi,

I´m not sure it is the right place to post this question, if not, I
apologize for the inconvenience.

I'm working with a comprehensive list of tv programming that include not
only each program but also each advertisement or advertising call.

Each list contains programming a month and can contain up to 40,000 rows
and in general  only 1,000 unique programs.

As far as I understand the XMLTV format contains a header to describe the
channels and later their referenced by their unique codes, but wouldn´t it
be more efficient and produce much smaller files if we could have a XML
group to describe the program and another to describe the schedule using
just program codes?

Something that would resembles the example below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>
> <!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd">
>
>
>> <tv source-info-url="http://www.schedulesdirect.org/"
>> source-info-name="Schedules Direct" generator-info-name="XMLTV/$Id:
>> tv_grab_na_dd.in,v 1.70 2008/03/03 15:21:41 rmeden Exp $"
>> generator-info-url="http://www.xmltv.org/">
>
>   <channel id="I10436.labs.zap2it.com">
>
>     <display-name>13 KERA</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>13 KERA TX42822:-</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>13</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>13 KERA fcc</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>KERA</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>KERA</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>PBS Affiliate</display-name>
>
>     <icon src="file://C:\Perl\site/share/xmltv/icons/KERA.gif" />
>
>   </channel>
>
>   <channel id="I10759.labs.zap2it.com">
>
>     <display-name>11 KTVT</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>11 KTVT TX42822:-</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>11</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>11 KTVT fcc</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>KTVT</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>KTVT</display-name>
>
>     <display-name>CBS Affiliate</display-name>
>
>     <icon src="file://C:\Perl\site/share/xmltv/icons/KTVT.gif" />
>
>   </channel>
>
>

>   <programme id="1111111111">
>
>     <title lang="en">NOW on PBS</title>
>
>     <desc lang="en">Jordan's Queen Rania has made job creation a priority
>> to help curb the staggering unemployment rates among youths in the Middle
>> East.</desc>
>
>     <date>20080711</date>
>
>     <category lang="en">Newsmagazine</category>
>
>     <category lang="en">Interview</category>
>
>     <category lang="en">Public affairs</category>
>
>     <category lang="en">Series</category>
>
>     <episode-num system="dd_progid">EP01006886.0028</episode-num>
>
>     <episode-num system="onscreen">427</episode-num>
>
>     <audio>
>
>       <stereo>stereo</stereo>
>
>     </audio>
>
>     <previously-shown start="20080711000000" />
>
>     <subtitles type="teletext" />
>
>   </programme>
>
>   <programme id="22222222">
>
>     <title lang="en">Mystery!</title>
>
>     <sub-title lang="en">Foyle's War, Series IV: Bleak
>> Midwinter</sub-title>
>
>     <desc lang="en">Foyle investigates an explosion at a munitions
>> factory, which he comes to believe may have been premeditated.</desc>
>
>     <date>20070701</date>
>
>     <category lang="en">Anthology</category>
>
>     <category lang="en">Mystery</category>
>
>     <category lang="en">Series</category>
>
>     <episode-num system="dd_progid">EP00003026.0665</episode-num>
>
>     <episode-num system="onscreen">2705</episode-num>
>
>     <audio>
>
>       <stereo>stereo</stereo>
>
>     </audio>
>
>     <previously-shown start="20070701000000" />
>
>     <subtitles type="teletext" />
>
>   </programme>
>
>

>   <programmeTime start="20080715023000 -0600" stop="20080715040000 -0600"
>> channel="I10436.labs.zap2it.com">
>
>     <programme id>22222222</id>
>
>   </programmeTime>
>
>   <programmeTime start="20080715040000 -0600" stop="20080715043000 -0600"
>> channel="I10436.labs.zap2it.com">
>
>     <programme id>111111111</id>
>
>   </programmeTime>
>
> </tv>
>
>

Regards,

Joao Carlos

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