def getheadlines(self, arg=None, menuw=None):
"""
this returns a menu with VideoItems for each headline
"""
headlines = []
rawheadlines = []
rawheadlines = self.getsiteheadlines()
for title, link, description in rawheadlines:
# create a VideoItem for each headline
mi = VideoItem(link, self.parent)
mi.name = title
description = description.replace('\n\n', '&#xxx;').replace('\n', ' ').\
replace('&#xxx;', '\n')
description = description.replace('<p>', '\n').replace('<br>', '\n')
description = description.replace('<p>', '\n').replace('<br/>', '\n')
description = description + '\n \n \nLink: ' + link
description = util.htmlenties2txt(description)
mi.plot = re.sub('<.*?>', '', description)
headlines.append(mi)
# create the menu
if (len(headlines) == 0):
headlines += [menu.MenuItem(_('No Headlines found'), menuw.back_one_menu, 0)]
headlines_menu = menu.Menu(_('Headlines'), headlines)
menuw.pushmenu(headlines_menu)
menuw.refresh()
