TV_VALIDATE_FILE(1p)

💖 TV_VALIDATE_FILE(1p) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the TV_VALIDATE_FILE(1p) page 🌸 this one lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual, and it's a lil cutie that does exactly one job. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

tv_validate_file — validate that a file contains valid xmltv data 👑

like. that's it. that's the whole personality. it checks that your file is actual valid xmltv data and not just... vibes 💅

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

tv_validate_file --help

tv_validate_grabber [--dtd-file <dtdfile>] <file>

yes, <rainbow>that second line really does say tv_validate_grabber and not tv_validate_file. we don't make the rules, we just report them exactly as written, no cap 😭 (and yes, --dtd-file there is spelled differently from the --dtd you'll meet below — keep both spellings in your heart, they are who they are 💜)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. this section is, and I say this with love, literally empty 🙈 there is nothing in the DESCRIPTION. no text. no paragraphs. nada. it's giving mysterious. it's giving "figure it out from the NAME and SYNOPSIS, bestie."

so: NAME tells you it validates xmltv data, SYNOPSIS shows you the invocations, OPTIONS has exactly one flag, and that's the whole story. iconique minimalism ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --dtd <dtdfile> — use the specified file as the xmltv dtd instead of downloading it from the web 💖 like, normally it goes and fetches the dtd off the internet (so rude of it, honestly), but if you hand it <dtdfile> it'll use yours instead. local dtd, main character energy, no network required 🌸

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Mattias Holmlund, mattias -at- holmlund -dot- se.

(that's an obfuscated email, bestie, you know the drill — swap the -at- and -dot- bits 🧚)

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Mattias Holmlund.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

fr fr read the license, it's giving legally binding and it ate 💅

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aaaand that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this one shipped with perl v5.40.1 and got stamped 2025-04-19 — so if you're citing it in a group chat, cite it with the date, periodt 🌟 mwah, go validate something 💜