Copyright (c) 2000 Jonathan Eisenzopf and Rael Dornfest. All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. NAME XML::RSS Version 0.96 DESCRIPTION This module was created to help those who need to manage RDF Site Summary (RSS) files. It makes quick work of creating, updating, and saving RSS files. XML::RSS currently supports 0.9, 0.91, and 1.0 versions of RSS. See http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/mnn20/quickstart.html for information on RSS 0.91. See http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/ for RSS 0.9 and http://purl.org/rss/1.0/. Feel free to contact us at eisen@pobox.com or rael@oreilly.com if you have problems and/or suggestions. REQUIREMENTS This module requires version 2.23 or greater of the XML::Parser module. The latest version is available at any CPAN archive. You may have problems if you're using Perl 5.004. If you do, you'll need to get the latest version of XML::Parser. INSTALLATION perl Makefile.PL make make install LIMITATIONS -XML::RSS doesn't yet validate that the required elements exist before it generates the RSS file. -Ignores the encoding defined in the XML declaration when using parse() or parsefile(). This is not intentional, I just haven't been able to get it to work yet. -Same problem with the RSS version attribute as with encoding. -The module no longer supports the rss0.91 namespace, which was included in the first RSS 1.0 specification to support extra 0.91 elements. If you use this module with RSS 1.0 files that used XML::RSS version 0.9, you will lose those elements if you load the file and re-save it with this module. This information is now included in the dublin core elements which is now supported natively in this module. This does not affect coversions from 0.91 to 1.0 formats. That conversion works fine. TROUBLESHOOTING -If you get an error when using the parse() or parsefile() methods, your RSS file is probably not valid XML. You must be sure to encode all XML default entities.