NAME

       Template::Plugin::XML::RSS - Plugin interface to XML::RSS

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.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1996-2006 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

       Template::Plugin, XML::RSS, XML::Parser