Engineering Channel RSS Module
The Engineering Channel Overair Downloads RSS feed uses a special namespace. If you wish to use this feed you should refer to this namespace definition to help decode the feed.
The feed will display in a standard news feed aggregator but the information is better structured using our namespace.
Namespace declaration
xmlns:engineeringChannel="http://www.dtg.org.uk/engineeringChannelModule#"
Namespace elements at top level
engineeringChannel:freeviewupdate
Contains the date and time (in format yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm) when the Freeview data was updated. Note that the changes may be cosmetic.
engineeringChannel:freesatupdate
As above but for Freesat downloads
Namespace elements within an <item> element
- engineeringChannel:platform => Freeview | Freesat
- engineeringChannel:mux => 1|B|HD
- engineeringChannel:startdate => yyyy-mm-dd
- engineeringChannel:starttime => hh:mm:ss (usually either 01:00:00 or 10:00:00)
- engineeringChannel:enddate => yyyy-mm-dd
- engineeringChannel:endtime => hh:mm:ss (usually either 09:00:00 or 23:59:59)
- engineeringChannel:company => string
- engineeringChannel:models => string
- engineeringChannel:version => string
- engineeringChannel:pnr => Provisional | New | Repeat
Notes
- Assume that any of the above elements could be empty. For example, many Freesat downloads have open end dates.
- Freesat items have no start or end time elements but they may have start and end date elements.
- Freesat items have no mux attribute
- The downloads feed does have some standard news feed elements such as title and description. These are to make the feed usable in a standard news reader. The information is duplicated in a structured way using the namespace. The <pubDate> element is derived from the start date of a download.
- Timings of transmissions may not be exact. The endtime attribute value of 23:59:59 is chosen to clarify which day is represented.
Version
- 2009-03-26: Version 1 to accompany launch of trial service
- 2009-04-13: Start and end times changed from descriptive to actual times
- 2010-05-21: Mux attribute added