From ollieman@gmail.com Sun Mar 26 09:52:00 2006
From: Oliver Taylor <ollieman@gmail.com>
To: textmate@lists.macromates.com
Subject: [TxMt] automated RSS feeds with TextMate
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:48:51 -0800
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I use this to create the feeds for ollieman.net. I thought you guys  
might like this...

You'll want to start out with a valid RSS2 feed like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
   <channel>
     <title></title>
     <link></link>
     <language>en-us</language>
     <description></description>
   </channel>
</rss>

Now to the real fun; it's just a snippet but it makes hand-coding RSS  
feeds a breeze. Here it is:

<item>
     <title>$1</title>
     <description><![CDATA[
         $2
         <a href="$5">Read more</a>
     ]]></description>
     <pubDate>${3:`date +%a,\ %d\ %b\ %Y\ %H:%M:%S\ %Z`}</pubDate>
     <author>${4:Oliver Taylor} nospam(a)example.com</author>
     <guid isPermaLink="true">${5:http://ollieman.net/$6}</guid>
     <link>$5</link>
     <category>$7</category>
</item>

The only thing of real note here is getting the pubDate correct. If  
you want it to insert GMT instead of your local time you'll have to  
tweak that.

Lastly, make sure to set the scope to text.xml and you're all set.

That's it! 1,2,3-easy RSS feed.

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