dvdauthor does not accept dvdunauthor generated xml files

[pmaziere]

In order to have a better understanding of how DVDs are structured, I used dvdunauthor (latest git master commit) on one of my DVD to generate the corresponding xml file.
When i tried to use this xml file with dvdauthor (dvdauthor -x myfile.xml -o OutputPath), it says that it cannot match start tag titlemap.

So I had a look at the source, and it seems that the xml structure expected by dvdauthor is not the same as the one generated by dvdunauthor.

[ldo]

What would you propose as a fix?

[pmaziere]

First, could you please explain why dvdauthor input xml file and dvdunauthor output xml file do not have the same schemas ? I think I've read, maybe in the ML, that dvdunauthor was in advance compared to dvdauthor, the former being able to describe more DVD features than the latter. Can you confirm ? For what follows, I will suppose that you do.

From what I read in the source, the xml structure is verified by a manually build tag/allowedChildrenTags/callback associations. So I would propose 4 steps:
1/ confirm that the dvdauthor.xsd is in sync with the output of dvdunauthor; if not, fix it so that everyone could have a common reference
2/ update the tag/allowedChildrenTags/callback associations to match the schema of dvdunauthor, using empty callbacks for missing features
3/ update dvdauthor output xml file to be in sync with the fixed dvdauthor.xsd
4/ implement the empty callbacks introduced in 2

What do you think ?

[lu-zero]

+1