Dear Lazyweb: Turn RSS into HTML

[yesthattom]

I have an RSS feed (actually, a URL to a RDF file). I want to get the contents, transform it to a bit of simple HTML that someone could #include or <iframe>, and save it to disk.

For example, both My Yahoo and Google Personalized Home let you "add content" by specifying an RSS feed URL. Then magically the content (or at least the headlines and maybe a tiny bit more) appear in a box on my homepage. I want to provide that kind of thing.

I'm sure Perl has a CPAN module for this. Oh, Lazyweb, won't you help me?

Comments

[nulldevice.livejournal.com]

Well...RSS is just XML, so there's more than likely an XSLT transform that does what you want it to do already in existence. From there there's like 8,000,000 little scripts in Perl, PHP, Python, VB, C#, Java, Ruby, yadda yadda yadda that apply XSLT to XML.

http://manalang.com/archives/2004/06/17/xslts-for-rss-and-atom-feeds

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Bah! XSLT would require too much thinking.

[cpj.livejournal.com]

I agree with the XSLT solution. :P

[awfief.livejournal.com]

um, you work for google, can't you just ask?

But yah, nulldevice is correct. The only reason my blog shows up nicely in my browser is because I have style sheets and stuff that tell the XML to show up nicely.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Bah! Double-bah!

I found this tutorial which I ignored, found the perl script at the end, and ran it. I'll fix up the CSS later.

[ljtourist.livejournal.com]

My goodness, you are channeling jwz, aren't you? ;-)

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Yeah but he gets better results :)

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

um, you work for google, can't you just ask?

I admit that was kind of my reaction too :-)