NAME

Template::Plugin::XML::Feed - Plugin interface to XML::Feed

SYNOPSIS

    [% USE news = XML.Feed('news.rdf') %]
   
    [% FOREACH item IN news.items %]
       [% item.title %]
       [% item.link  %]
    [% END %]

DESCRIPTION

This Template Toolkit plugin provides a simple interface to the XML::Feed module.

    [% USE news = XML.Feed('mysite.rdf') %]

It creates an XML::Feed object, which is then used to parse the RSS or Atom file specified as a parameter in the USE directive. A reference to the XML::Feed object is then returned.

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 %]

METHODS

new

Constructor method. Delegates to XML::Feed->parse to create an XML::Feed object. Not usually called directly.

AUTHORS

This plugin was written by Dave Cross and was heavily based on the code for Template::Plugin::XML::RSS by Andy Wardley.

The XML::Feed module, which implements all of the functionality that this plugin delegates to, was written by Benjamin Trott and is now maintained by Dave Cross.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Magnum Solutions Ltd. 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::Feed