As a complete aside and nothing to do with your real question, if all you need to do is re-format the RSS have you considered using XSLT to do this ? XSLT is supported in Perl by XML::LibXSLT ( or if you really need to XML::XSLT ;-) One advantage of going this route is that you can have a single program to format the data in several different ways and all you need to change is the stylesheet.

/J\