[marcus1901]

I am trying to hide certain list items that get automatically generated by kodi. Specifically I would like to hide the ".." item in a video source list. I can conditionally set the visibility using something like <visible>!String.IsEqual(ListItem.Label, "..")</visible> however this only appears to hide the item not to actually remove it from the list. How can I accomplish this?

[ronie]

that can't be controlled by the skin.
it's up to the user whether or not the '..' item appears.
settings > media > general > show parent folder items

[marcus1901]

Thanks. In general I assume there is no way to hide auto generated list items, is this correct? Lets suppose I don't want my home screen to include a Weather item, is the only way to accomplish this to explicitly specify all items except the weather item in <content> and wire them up myself?

[DjCisco]

Thanks. In general I assume there is no way to hide auto generated list items, is this correct?

  
Correct

Lets suppose I don't want my home screen to include a Weather item, is the only way to accomplish this to explicitly specify all items except the weather item in <content> and wire them up myself?

  
Well, there is nothing to auto-populate in the Home screen, any content in the Home Screen requires a <content> Tag. So by definition, weather will only appear if you define some content related to weather.