The Blog of Harald

“Russell Beattie”:http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/” blogged about an “XML + XSL Trick”:http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1004309.html to convert RSS feeds into something that renders readably in modern browsers.

I decided to “try it out”:http://blog.cfrq.net/chk/index.rdf, and discovered in the process just how picky XML is; I had to change my SmartyPants installation to output UTF-8 sequences instead of “HTML Entities”:http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/. I stopped there; although I intended to see if I could modify the “rss2html.xsl”:http://blogl.cfrq.net/chk/rss2html.xsl script to work for RSS 2.0, I never found the time…