SYNOPSIS
[% USE news = XML.RSS('news.rdf') %]
[% FOREACH item IN news.items %]
[% item.title %]
[% item.link %]
[% END %]
DESCRIPTION
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 IN news.items %]
[% item.title %]
[% item.link %]
[% END %]
AUTHORS
This plugin was written by Andy Wardley inspired by an article in Web Techniques by Randal Schwartz.The XML::RSS module, which implements all of the functionality that this plugin delegates to, was written by Jonathan Eisenzopf.