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While merlyn's solution works well, I prefer a more XML native approach. The RDF file should be valid XML, in which case you only need apply an XSL Transformation to the file once you have it, to get valid XHTML, WML or whatever out.

This is the basis of XML::RSS::Tools, a module I've been developing. Here is an example of the usage:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use XML::RSS::Tools; my $site = shift; my $xsl = shift; my $rss = XML::RSS::Tools->new; $rss->rss_uri($site) or die $rss->as_string('error'); $rss->xsl_file($xsl) or die $rss->as_string('error'); if ($rss->transform) { print $rss->as_string };

There are however problems:

My humble 2p