I've googled unsuccesfully for this. What I really need is a simple perl program that will parse the xml output of an rss feed into standard html links. The xml is very basic, as follows:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xml
+ns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/">
- <channel rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com">
  <title>www.shannonlan.com</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi</link> 
  <description>www.shannonlan.com - News to Go</description> 
- <items>
- <rdf:Seq>
  <rdf:li resource="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action
+=viewnews&id=248" /> 
  <rdf:li resource="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action
+=viewnews&id=247" /> 
  <rdf:li resource="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action
+=viewnews&id=246" /> 
  <rdf:li resource="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action
+=viewnews&id=245" /> 
  <rdf:li resource="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action
+=viewnews&id=244" /> 
  <rdf:li resource="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action
+=viewnews&id=243" /> 
  <rdf:li resource="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action
+=viewnews&id=242" /> 
  <rdf:li resource="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action
+=viewnews&id=241" /> 
  <rdf:li resource="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action
+=viewnews&id=240" /> 
  <rdf:li resource="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action
+=viewnews&id=239" /> 
  </rdf:Seq>
  </items>
  </channel>
- <item rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=
+viewnews&id=248">
  <title>More B5 in the works?</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id
+=248</link> 
  </item>
- <item rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=
+viewnews&id=247">
  <title>Babylon 5 Season 5 DVD Box Set Review</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id
+=247</link> 
  </item>
- <item rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=
+viewnews&id=246">
  <title>Latest Trailer for Battle for Middle Earth</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id
+=246</link> 
  </item>
- <item rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=
+viewnews&id=245">
  <title>Free Tribes and Tribes 2!</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id
+=245</link> 
  </item>
- <item rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=
+viewnews&id=244">
  <title>ATi Unveils new Graphics Card</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id
+=244</link> 
  </item>
- <item rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=
+viewnews&id=243">
  <title>SASSER virus!</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id
+=243</link> 
  </item>
- <item rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=
+viewnews&id=242">
  <title>THG Shows Us How...</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id
+=242</link> 
  </item>
- <item rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=
+viewnews&id=241">
  <title>First Unreal Tournament 2004 patch coming soon?</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id
+=241</link> 
  </item>
- <item rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=
+viewnews&id=240">
  <title>FREE Softimage Experience for Half-Life 2</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id
+=240</link> 
  </item>
- <item rdf:about="http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=
+viewnews&id=239">
  <title>EA Games: The Third Age</title> 
  <link>http://www.shannonlan.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id
+=239</link> 
  </item>
  </rdf:RDF>
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As you can see this is simply a set of Http Links. I was surprised to find that no parser of this sort appears to be available. I found several Javascript and PHP solutions, but none in Perl.

Oh, and just a proviso, I am running my site on a remote server so I can't install Perl Modules, everything needs to be pretty much standard.

Thanks,
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