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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.  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 %] |