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NAME

Template::Plugin::XML::RSS - Template Toolkit plugin to the XML::RSS module

SYNOPSIS

 [% USE news = XML.RSS($filename) %]

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

PRE-REQUISITES

This plugin requires that the XML::Parser and XML::RSS modules be installed. These are available from CPAN:

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML

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

AUTHOR

Andy Wardley <cre.canon.co.uk>

CREDITS

The XML::RSS module, which implements all of the functionality that this plugin delegates to, was written by Jonathan Eisenzopf <eisen@pobox.com>.

This plugin was inspired by an article in Web Techniques by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>.

REVISION

$Revision: 2.0 $

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2000 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

XML::RSS, Template::Plugin,