I recently discovered the magic of RSS aggregators (tried out
kaggregator on KDE), and realized that Campsite's RSS feed didnt work
with it. Ok, no problem, i thought, cant be that hard to get it
working...ahem.

After several attempts, the following is the simplest I've been able
to make it. Maybe someone knows a less hackier way to do this. If
you know, please tell me, because I want to post some intructions in
the manual.

Summary:
This hack is the result of trying to overcome three problems:

1) There doesnt seem like there is a way in campsite to display a
specific template, except by creating an empty section and assigning
the template to it.
2) There isnt a way in the template language to set the HTTP headers
of a page. In this case we need to tell the browser that the
"Content-type" is "text/xml".
3) PHP wrapper annoyances

Step 1) Create your RSS feed. Create a template named "rss.tpl" that
looks something like what written below. Notice that there is no
at the top. This is on purpose, if you put it
in there the PHP wrapper will think this is PHP code and try to
execute it (point #3 above). When it tries to do this, it will crash.
I've tested the RSS below using a web-based feed validator and it
says it still checks out even without the XML tag. The PHP code at
the beginning and end of the sample below is to overcome point #2
above and also to strip out HTML from the new stories.
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ob_start();
?>
xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">



http://www.campware.org
Free Software for a Free Press
en-us























http://www.campware.org
body>
"%Y-%m-%d">T00:00:00+00:00




header("Content-type: text/xml");

$content = ob_get_clean();

// Optional: remove mixed content to insure 100% compatible RSS.
// Comment out the next 2 lines if you dont want this.
$allowedTags="
> http://www.campware.org
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