<site>

imdb.com.imdb
allocine.fr.google
imdb.com.imdb_series
imdb.com.ask, imdb.com.imdb

Specifies the mdbini files that will be used for grabbing the mdb info. The value used here must correspond with an mdbini file (without the .ini extension)
If a second site is entered here, it will be used as a 'second chance' if the first doesn't find a match for a certain show.
Optionally you can separately configure the mdbini file for the movies and for the series. This way you can use dedicated mdbini files for both types of shows.

<filename>

D:\WebGrab\MDB\guide.xml
guide.xml

The output xmltv file. This file will contain the original xmltv data merged with the new mdb info.
Because of the incremental nature of the grabbing process this file must be different (name and/or path) from the target file of the grabbing as specified in WebGrab++.Config.xml !! If omitted here or if by mistake the same file is specified , the file path will be changed to the mdb subfolder of the WG++ program home folder. When only a filename is specified, the mdb subfolder in the WG++ program home folder will be used.

<ldbfilename>

D:\WebGrab\MDB\mdb.xml
mdb.xml

The ldb (local data base) file can be used to save the mdb info locally. This will speed up later grabbings of mdb data. If not specified, no local data file will be used. When only a file name is specified, the mdb subfolder in the WG++ program home folder will be used.

<selectserie>

<selectmovie>

The MDB postprocessor will select shows from the input xmltv file for which MDB data will be searched

The following element-names can be used:
 title, description, starrating, subtitle, productiondate, category, director, actor, presenter, writer, composer, producer, rating, episode, showicon, subtitles, premiere, previously-shown, aspect, quality.

The most useful once are:

<matchserie>

<matchmovie>

Compare the epg of the selected 'candidates' with mdb values found in the mdb site or the local MDB data file. If a correct match is found, the info of the mdb will be merged with the input xmltv info.

The same element-names as mentioned in <selectserie> & <selectmovie> can be used here.

Remark: Be aware that <match...> and <select....> are dependent on each other. eg. If you put musthave="subtitle" in matchserie/matchmovie, but you don't have the element in selectserie/selectmovie, then the MDB postprocessor will never find a match.

<channels>

Disney Channel
RTV1

Optional, a way to exclude channels that don’t need mdb processing.
Default all channels in the WebGrab++.config.xml will be used to select shows for mdb processing. Adding a channel line here, with the update attribute empty (="") will exclude the channel from mdb processing.
Any other update value, will leave the channel included.
The syntax of the channel element(s) is(are) the same as the channel element in WebGrab++.config and the .channel.xml files in the siteini.pack.

See the WebGrab++.config.xml channel documentation for more info about this line(s)

allocation and presentation

This MDB-postprocessor makes use of the REX-postprocessor to allocate the mdb elements in the xmltv target. Please read the detailed explanation in rex.config.xml for information about the background of the specification syntax.

Here only the summary of it:
1. Syntax
  - the content of the xmltv-target elements can be specified by means of a mixture of text and element-values. (Some xmltv-target elements do not accept the additional text components because of their intended use, like episode-num and icon.)
  - the element-values must be entered by their element-name enclosed by ''
  - multiple value elements (like actor) will be converted to single value elements if the xmltv-target element is a single value element, like <desc>. The individual values will be listed with a (standard WG++ internal element separator) | as separator unless another separator is specified as follows:
'element-name(separator-string)' e.g. 'actor(, )'
  - additional text and element-names can be linked together by enclosing them by {}. This will ensure that, when the element in it is empty, everything between the {} is ignored. E.g. {\nProduced in : ('productiondate')}
  - the text in the xmltv-target elements may contain the following simple formatting :
      - \n or \r to force a newline
      - \t to add a tab
  - existing xmltv-target elements can be erased by specifying the element without a value as in: <writer></writer>
2. The allowed xmltv-target elements (the ones in the target xmltv file specified above) are :
  <title> (= special case : if the first mdb-title, which is the original showtitle, differs from the xmltv title it can be added to xmltv as extra 'original' title.)
  <sub-title>
  <desc>
  <date> = the xmltv element name containing the productiondate
  <star-rating>
  <review> (= optional new xmltv element)
  <director> e.g to add /substitute the (additional?) mdb-director
  <actor> e.g to add /substitute the (additional?) mdb-actor  
  <icon>  e.g. <icon>'mdb-showicon'</icon> !! no addtional text allowed!
  <episode-num> e.g. <episode-num>'mdb-episodenum'</episode-num>  !! no additional text allowed!
  - IMPORTANT! : any of the above listed xmltv-target elements that is specified in this allocation specification, replaces the existing xmltv element and its content!  
3. Supported element-names (from the existing xmltv listing, name definitions as in Appendix D of the documentation) :
  - 'title' 'description' 'starrating' 'subtitle' 'productiondate' 'category' 'director' 'actor' 'presenter' 'writer' 'composer' 'producer' 'rating' 'episode' 'showicon'   'subtitles' 'premiere' previously-shown' 'aspect' 'quality'
4. Supported MDB element-names.
  The following MDB element names are recognized by the program. (However, do realize that their values depend on the mdbini used and their existence in the mdb-site)
  - 'mdb-title' :
   If 'mdb-title' is used in the xmltv-target element <title>, it will only be added if different from the existing xmltv title (see 2. above)
   If used in any of the other supported xmltv-target elements, there is no such restriction and it will be listed in any case.
  - 'mdb-starrating' 'mdb-description' 'mdb-plot' 'mdb-commentsummary' 'mdb-review' 'mdb-actor' 'mdb-director' 'mdb-showid' 'mdb-subtitle' 'mdb-episodeid' 'mdb-episodenum' 'mdb-showicon' and 'mdb-productiondate'
5. Attributes  
  - for each of the xmltv-target elements the following attribute can be specified
          (if not specified, the existing one, if present in the xmltv, will be used) :
      - lang   for <title> <sub-title> and <desc>
      - system   for <star-rating> and <episode-num>
          mdb-episodenum takes the system attribute from the mdbini if specified there.
      - type  for <review> , default: type="text"

<title lang="xx">'mdb-title'</title>
<title>'title'</title><

{'mdb-title'...}{[plot: 'mdb-plot']\n}'description'{\n[imdb description: 'mdb-description']}

'starrating'
'mdb-starrating'

{From Site : 'starrating'\t\t}{From IMDb : 'mdb-starrating'}

{IMDb review: 'mdb-review'} 
{IMDb data; ttnr: 'mdb-showid', }{Title: 'mdb-title', }{Starrating: 'mdb-starrating' }{\n --- Description: 'mdb-description' }{\n --- Director: 'mdb-director(, )'}{\n --- Actors: 'mdb-actor(, )'}{\n --- Review: 'mdb-review'}{\n --- Kijkers Commentaar: 'mdb-commentsummary( ... )'}
{Episode data; ttnr: 'mdb-episodeid', }{Episode title: 'mdb-subtitle', }{Episode: 'mdb-episodenum' }{\n Showicon: 'mdb-showicon'}

<title lang="xx">'mdb-title'</title>
<title>'title'</title>
<sub-title>'mdb-subtitle'</sub-title>
<desc>'description'</desc>
<review type="text">{IMDb review: 'mdb-review'}</review>
<review>{IMDb data; ttnr: 'mdb-showid', }{Title: 'mdb-title', }{Starrating: 'mdb-starrating' }{\n --- Description: 'mdb-description' }{\n --- Director: 'mdb-director(, )'}{\n --- Actors: 'mdb-actor(, )'}{\n --- Review: 'mdb-review'}{\n --- Viewers reactions: 'mdb-commentsummary( ... )'}</review>
<review>{Episode data; ttnr: 'mdb-episodeid', }{Episode title: 'mdb-subtitle', }{Episode: 'mdb-episodenum' }{\n Showicon: 'mdb-showicon'}</review>
<star-rating system="mixed">{From Site : 'starrating'\t\t}{From IMDb : 'mdb-starrating'}</star-rating>
<icon>'showicon'</icon>
<icon>'mdb-showicon'</icon>
<episode-num>'episode'</episode-num>
<episode-num>'mdb-episodenum'</episode-num>