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SYNOPSIS |
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[% USE news = XML.RSS($filename) %] [% FOREACH item = news.items %] [% item.title %] [% item.link %] [% END %] |
PRE-REQUISITES |
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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 |
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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 %] |
AUTHORS |
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This plugin was written by Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org>, inspired by an article in Web Techniques by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>. The XML::RSS module, which implements all of the functionality that this plugin delegates to, was written by Jonathan Eisenzopf <eisen@pobox.com>. |
VERSION |
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2.65, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.14, released on 04 October 2004. |
COPYRIGHT |
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Copyright (C) 1996-2004 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. |
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