RSS perl modules

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http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit-2.14/lib/Template/Plugin/XML/RSS.pm

This Template Toolkit plugin provides a simple interface to the XML::RSS module.
[% USE news = XML.RSS('mysite.rdf') %]
It creates an XML::RSS object, which is then used to parse the RSS file specified as a parameter in the USE directive. A reference to the XML::RSS object is then returned.

An RSS (Rich Site Summary) file is typically used to store short news 'headlines' describing different links within a site. The attributes of the channel and image elements can be retrieved directly from the plugin object using the familiar dotted compound notation:
The list of news items can be retrieved using the 'items' method:

[% FOREACH item = news.items %]
[% item.title %]
[% item.link %]
[% END %]

[openbsd-flipp]

From the site

This example is extracted from http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf. <?xml version="1.0"?><rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns="http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/">

<channel>
<title>Slashdot:News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.</title>
<link>http://slashdot.org</link>
<description>News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters</description>
</channel>

<image>
<title>Slashdot</title>
<url>http://slashdot.org/images/slashdotlg.gif</url>
<link>http://slashdot.org</link>
</image>

<item>
<title>DVD CCA Battle Continues Next Week</title>
<link>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/12/2051208</link>
</item>

<item>
<title>Matrox to fund DRI Development</title>
<link>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/13/0718219</link>
</item>

<item>
<title>Mike Shaver Leaving Netscape</title>
<link>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/13/0711258</link>
</item>

</rdf:RDF>

The attributes of the channel and image elements can be retrieved directly from the plugin object using the familiar dotted compound notation:



[% news.channel.title %]
[% news.channel.link %]
[% news.channel.etc... %]

[% news.image.title %]
[% news.image.url %]
[% news.image.link %]
[% news.image.etc... %]

The list of news items can be retrieved using the 'items' method:

[% FOREACH item = news.items %]
[% item.title %]
[% item.link %]
[% END %]