Made blogging system better

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+#! /usr/bin/python3
+
+"""
+A script to generate html from the rss feed
+"""
+
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
+
+# Generates a html table for the article
+# I use table layout because fuck you
+def make_article_table(article_info, article):
+    return """
+        <table border="1" width="60%">
+            <tr><td><h2 id=\"{name}\">{title}</h2>--- {date}</td></tr>
+            <tr><td>{article}</td></tr>
+        </table>
+    """.format(
+        name=article_info["name"],
+        title=article_info["title"],
+        date=article_info["pubDate"],
+        article=article
+    )
+
+def main():
+    tree = et.parse("articles.xml")
+    root = tree.getroot()
+
+    template = ""
+
+    # Open html template
+    with open("template.html", "r") as fp:
+        template = fp.read()
+
+    article_html = ""
+
+    # Get articles from rss
+    for item in root:
+        article_info = {
+            "title": item.find("title").text,
+            "name": item.find("name").text,
+            "pubDate": item.find("pubDate").text
+        }
+
+        article = ""
+        
+        with open(item.find("file").text, "r") as fp:
+            article = fp.read()
+
+        # Remove article tags.
+        article = article[article.find("<article>")+9::]
+        article = article[:article.find("</article>"):]
+        article_html += make_article_table(article_info, article)
+
+    # Format the articles into the html
+    template = template.format(articles=article_html)
+    print(template)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()