#! /usr/bin/python3 import xml.etree.ElementTree as et def main(): tree = et.parse("articles.xml") root = tree.getroot() feed_xml = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <rss version=\"2.0\"> <channel> <title>Nathan's shitty blog</title> <description>The coffee powered blog of chaos</description> <link>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/blog</link> <image> <url>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/images/icon.png</url> <title>Nathan's shitty blog</title> <link>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/blog</link> </image> """ for item in root: with open(item.find("file").text, "r") as fp: feed_xml += """ <item> <title>{title}</title> <link>http://nathansmith117.beevomit.org/blog#{name}</link> <pubDate>{date}</pubDate> <description> <![CDATA[ {article} ]]> </description> </item> """.format( title=item.find("title").text, name=item.find("name").text, date=item.find("pubDate").text, article=fp.read() ) feed_xml += """ </channel> </rss> """ print(feed_xml) if __name__ == "__main__": main()