I'm wondering if one of you good fellows can help me....?
I am in the process of writing a vista gadget (similar to the ones produced by
the daily snooze) that consumes the BBC travel feeds. The idea is to provide a
gadget that can display the latest travel information for a specified area.
The development is done (for the most part) but I'm having some specific
problems with the data within the XML feeds:
For Road traffic messages...
The only way I can see to tell if a road incident has been cleared is if the
version_number attribute on the road_traffic_message node is set to 255. This
seems very arbitrary and I'm not sure if it always works...
For other (public transport) messages...
Each item has a transport_mode node (with an attribute of the same name) on the
root public_transport_information node. I assumed that
this transport_mode sub-node described the type of transport mode for the
item.... however it is always "railway service" (entity reference:
pti1_1) regardless of whether the node describes air, ferry or railway
information.
Any help / clarification on these would be most helpful.
Mike
