Basically the AlienBBC menus are a copy of the BBC web page menus because they are built on the fly.
In each BBC radio web pages there are many href URLs - a number of entries most are programs/shows but some are links to other menus. I can't remember the exact mechanism but there is some text (e.g. class, id ) "associated" with the href and AlienBBC uses this text to know if the the URL is playaable or another menu. AlienBBC opml file sets up a number of start points and the relevant Parser. This means the whole menu structure is available and it is low maintenance and always up to date. The BBC is quite good at being consistent across web pages especially within a station but there are some differences at program level (e.g. previous episodes/broadcast) between Stations. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43558 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
