Creating RSS via XSL?

[Roguebfl]

I document chnages to my website in news.xml with the following format:

<!DOCTYPE news [
  <!ELEMENT news (item*)>
  <!ELEMENT item (title,date,detail)>
  <!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT date (dow,year,month,day)>
  <!ELEMENT dow (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT year (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT month (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT day (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT detail (#PCDATA)>
]>

if need I can retrofit it with an link element (i current generate a link field via PHP form the existing data)

I would like to Add a RSS feed to the site But I don't want to have to update a second file ever time I make a site update

Is it possible to make a valid RSS feed the uses say xsl transform of the first 10 entries in news.xml?

[jkmyoung]

Sure, just have something like
<xsl:apply-templates select="item[position() &lt;= 10]"/>

I'm assuming somewhere in the header of the RSS you have a preprocessing directive like:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="firstTenItems.xsl"?>

[Roguebfl]

Sure, just have something like
<xsl:apply-templates select="item[position() &lt;= 10]"/>

I'm assuming somewhere in the header of the RSS you have a preprocessing directive like:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="firstTenItems.xsl"?>

my big question is if I had such a line, would browsers and reads reconginze it as an RSS feed?

[jkmyoung]

Upon trying with a simple mechanism, perhaps not; XSLT transformations are implicitly cast to html. Have also tried to create a page which runs the transformation, but the output is still only recognized as HTML.

Sorry, I don't know if there is such a mechanism without having your server create the second file.