Example 3 – RSS feed

Details for the example
Data source	Sample RSS feed: https://fudder.de/index.html.rss
Transformation	Yes
Personalisation/ parameter transfer	No
Agent	Content
Time of the update	Sending time

Notes on the example

In this example we will show you how you can integrate your own RSS feed into your mailing. You can use the following RSS feed for test purposes: https://fudder.de/index.html.rss.

Through the transformation, the first four entries of the blog are shown as a table in HTML format.

Presentation on the website (example)

https://fudder.de/index.html.rss

URL of the data source (example)

https://fudder.de/index.html.rss.

Transformation

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="no" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
    <xsl:template match="rss/channel">
        <xsl:variable name="quot">'</xsl:variable>
        <xsl:for-each select="item[position()&lt;=4]">
            <span style="font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-size:20px;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;color:#B1B1B1;"><xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="title"/></span>
            <br style="font-size:20px;"/>
            <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                <tr>
                    <td style="vertical-align:top;" align="left" valign="top">
                        <a><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="concat('[%url:unique-count; ',$quot, link, $quot, ']')"/></xsl:attribute>
                        </a>
                    </td>
                   <td style="vertical-align:top;" align="left" valign="top">
                        <xsl:value-of select="concat('[%url:unique-count; ', $quot, link, $quot, '; ', $quot, 'weitere Informationen', $quot, ']')" />
                    </td>
               </tr>
            </table>
            <xsl:if test="position()!=4">
                <span style="font-size:20px;"></span>
                <br style="font-size:20px;"/>
            </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>