Generating RSS is easy. Reading RSS in an aggregator is easy. But what about actually syndicating the content in your own site? There are numerous ways to do this but they are not all easy and they are not all available in every circumstance. If you want to include RSS feeds in your HTML pages without mastering the ins and out of XML and XSLT, what can you do?

Les Orchard’s RssDisplay to the rescue. He describes it thusly:

It’s been done many times before, but I wanted to whip up a quick Perl CGI to render an RSS feed in HTML for use in SSI on my site. This script does that very simply, yet with a small set of configurable options.