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RSS Generator

I have written a Perl program that makes generating RSS feeds pretty easy. It lets you add markup to your html or php files and then generate an xml file in RSS format. Here is an example of how the markup looks:

• <!-- <rssfeed> -->
• <h2>This is the title of my article</h2>
• <a name="anchor-to-my-article"></a>
• <p>Here is the text for my article. It can have images links etc.</p>
• <!-- </rssfeed> -->

Once the markup is in the page run the Perl program:

• rssfeed.pl

The default setting, which can be edited in the configuration section of the rssfeed.pl file will create a rssfeed.xml file (or whatever you have named it.) Now all you need to do is place a link in the head section of your web page like this:

• <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="/rssfeed.xml" />

or add a link in your code like this:

• <p> Subscribe to the My News RSS feed:
  <a href="/rssfeed.xml"> <img src="images/xmlbuttonorange.gif" alt="My RSS feed" border="0"></a> </p>

The RSS Generator file is rssfeed.pl Download File

Latest version of RSS Generator

Now you can add more attributes to the <rssfeed> tag. The new attributes are:

• url
• page
• anchor
• title
• date (date is not actually new)
• noesc

These attributes let you add information that is not in the markup. Also it makes it easy to have a text file that has your RSS information and use the url, page and anchor attributes to specify the target for the article. Here is an example of how this could work:

• <rssfeed title="My new feed" url="http://www.someplace.com" page="newpage.html">
• <p>This is my new RSS stuff.</p>
• <h2>This h2 is not the title because we have a title attribute</h2>
• </rssfeed>

This could be placed in a separate text file, or within a html file if you placed html comment marks around the rssfeed tags.

The noesc attribute takes not agruments. If present it keeps the section from being html encoded, that is, < and > are not turned into &lt; and &gt;.

The perl file rssfeed.pl has documentation in the code and also via options -h, --help, -m, or --man at the command line.

Note: the application requires the following packages:

• File::Copy
• File::Basename
• File::Spec
• File::Spec::Link
• Getopt::Long
• Pod::Usage

View the man

All of our code is released under the MIT and GPL License

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