guide.xml 'description'\n'actor' The result is the existing 'description', followed by, on a newline, the actor(s) separated by the standard WG++ element separator |. The result: This is the original description. Michael Douglas|Kim Basinger You probably don't like the | as separator between the actors, so you specify another separator like this: 'description'\n'actor(, )' The result: This is the original description. Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger You can make this prettier by adding some text to the actors addition: 'description'\nActors: 'actor(, )'. The result: This is the original description. Actors: Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger. A small problem: Suppose the source xmltv show doesn't have any actors, then the result would be not so pretty: This is the original description. Actors: . To avoid that, the added text can be linked to the element it must be added to, like this: 'description'{\nActors: 'actor(, )'.} Result with actors: This is the original description. Actors: Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger. And without actors: This is the original description. An example with some more elements: 'description'{\n\tYear of production: 'productiondate'.}{\n\tProducer: 'producer(, )'.}{\n\tActors: 'actor(, )'.} Result: This is the original description. Year of production: 2002. Producer: Steven Spielberg. Actors: Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger. And another one: {Episode: 'episode'\t}'subtitle' Result: Episode: 3.2/12.1 The original subtitle You can also remove elements (but not the title!) from the xmltv listing by specifying an empty element, like this: or simply This will remove all elements And this: Will remove the element, including all its child elements like , etc. Additional options : ** Operations : optionally to do certain operations on the element value to expand e.g: These operations must be specified within the ' ' characters that specify the elementname, enclosed by [] and separated by a , e.g. {Summary: 'description[cleanup(style=upper), max_chars=500]'}{\nActors: 'actor(, )'} supported operations : - cleanup with style and tags arguments, - max_chars, max_words and max_sentences to limit the content data of the expanded element. ** Xmltv Attributes in content to expand: If the source xmltv element has an attribute, like lang="en" or role="rolename" (in actor) or system="US", it is possible to add it to the expanded content by add /a (for attribute value only) or /a+ (for attributename and value) to the element name. This /a or /a+ addition must be added directly after the element name, like 'actor/a' or combined with a custom separator, 'actor/a(, )' or combined with an operation 'country/a(/)[cleanup(style=lower)]' Example (assuming the actors role values are provided in the source xmltv file): 'description'{\n\tYear of production: 'productiondate',}{ Rating: 'rating/a+'.}{\n\tProducer: 'producer(, )'.}{\n\tActors: 'actor/a+(, )'.} Result: This is the original description. Year of production: 2002, Rating TV-14(system=US). Producer: Steven Spielberg. Actors: Michael Douglas(role=The carpenter), Kim Basinger(role=Mary). Summary of Content/Values: 1. Syntax content - the content of the xmltv-target elements can be specified by means of a mixture of text and element-values. - content can be left empty to remove the xmltv element (except the element