Create RSS channels from HTML news sites

This article teaches how to turn any news site into a RSS web service by using Perl. It uses many modules from CPAN network and teaches how to download the page, parse the HTML on them and encode the summary information in RSS.

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Getting Started With XML-RPC in Perl, Part 1

This first part of a series of articles explains what XML-RPC is and how simple clients and serves can be created with the usage of Perl's Frontier::RPC library. It includes samples of XML-RPC conversation diagrams and data types.

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Using XML and Relational Databases with Perl

This article shows how Perl can be used to transfer data between XML and relational databases. It also shows how XML can bridge two databases and uses MySQL as the example database.

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XML and Perl: Embedding XML in HTML

This article explains XML and its usage. It shows how Perl script can retrieve and display the contents of HTML embedded XML tags. It also shows how to create a script to gather news headlines from an XML file and create an HTML news summary.

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