Note: Depending on what version of XML::RSS you have on your server, you may need to take off the Carp code for this to work-- I also had to take off Taint (-T on the first line).

#!/usr/bin/perl -w -T
# rss_news.pl - Read from RSS Feeds and produce
# a web page.
# Note: This is not guaranteed to work on all
# RSS feeds.  It does not break on the ones listed.
# See this at work at
# http://barcelona.pm.org/news.cgi

use strict;

use XML::RSS;
use LWP::Simple qw(get);
use CGI qw(:standard escapeHTML);
# warningsToBrowser may not work in your version--
# if so, use comment this declaration and use the
# next one. Also, remove the fatalsToBrowser for a
# production site if you're worried about
# security.
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);
#use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

my $cgi = new CGI; # Hash reference
print $cgi->header()."\n\n";
# If warningsToBrowser doesn't work in your version,
# comment the next line.
warningsToBrowser(1);
print $cgi->start_html("news feeds")."\n\n";

# Read and process the channels listed at the
# end of the file.
my @channels;
while (<DATA>)
{
    push(@channels, $_);
}
map {get_channel($_, $cgi)} (@channels);

print $cgi->end_html()."\n";

sub get_channel
{
    # This subroutine takes a URL and a CGI object
    # and prints out the resulting RSS feed formatted
    # as HTML

    my ($url, $q) = @_;
    my $version = "1.0";

    # Use LWP::Simple to get the RSS feed.
    my $content = get($url) or carp("I couldn't get from $url");
    # Just to be sure...
    if ($content =~ m/^\s*$/)
    {
        carp("$url is empty");
        return;
    }

    # Determine the version based on regexes-- 
    # I based these on the feeds I was familiar
    # with, so this part could be improved by
    # finding the standard for this information
    if ($content =~ m#http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/#i)
    {
        $version = "0.9";
        print $q->comment("$url: RDF version 0.9")."\n";
    }
    elsif ($content =~ m#<rss version="0.91">#i)
    {
        $version = "0.91";
        print $q->comment("$url: RDF version 0.91")."\n";
    }
    else
    {
        print $q->comment("$url: looks like RDF version 1.0")."\n";
    }
    # Create the new rss object with this version
    my $result = new XML::RSS (version => "$version");

    # Parse the content
    $result->parse($content) or carp("I couldn't parse $url");

    # Channel Title
    my $channel = $result->{'channel'}; # Hash reference
    print $q->comment("This page was generated from $url.")."\n\n";
    print $q->h1("News from ".
        $q->a( { -href => $channel->{'link'}},
        $channel->{'title'}))."\n";
    print $q->h2($channel->{'description'})."\n";

    # Channel Image
    my $image = $result->{'image'}; # Hash reference
    if ($image->{'title'} ne "")
    {
        print $q->a( { -href => $image->{'link'}},
            img( { -src => $image->{'url'},
            -alt => $image->{'title'}}))."\n\n";
    }

    # Channel Items
    my $tcontent = "";
    my $items = $result->{'items'}; # Array reference
    map {
        $tcontent .= $q->Tr(
            $q->td(
                $q->a(
                    { -href => $_->{'link'}},
                    $_->{'title'}
                )
            )
        )."\n"
    } (@{$items});
    print $q->table($tcontent)."\n\n";

    # Channel Search Form
    my $textinput = $result->{'textinput'}; # Hash Reference
    if ($textinput->{'link'} ne "")
    {
        print $q->h2($textinput->{'description'})."\n";
        print $q->start_form( {-action => $textinput->{'link'}} )."\n"
+;
        print $q->input( {-name => $textinput->{'name'}} )."\n";
        print $q->input( {-type => "submit",
                -value => $textinput->{'title'} || "Search"})."\n";
        print $q->end_form()."\n\n";
    }
}
__DATA__
http://use.perl.org/useperl.rdf
http://search.cpan.org/recent.rdf
http://www.xml.com/cs/xml/query/q/19
http://www.perlmonks.org/headlines.rdf
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