Shell RSS writer

output.rss

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>yo</title>
    <link>http://www.google.com</link>
    <description>hello wold</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <generator>just a shell script rss writer</generator>
    <item>
        <title>AUEB FOSS COMMUNITY</title>
        <link>http://foss.aueb.gr</link>
        <description>awesome foss stuff!</description>
        <category>open source</category>
        <category>free software</category>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title>MasterEx @ GitHub</title>
        <link>https://github.com/MasterEx</link>
        <description>social coding!</description>
        <author>Periklis Ntanasis</author>
        <category>code repo</category>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

rsswriter.sh

#!/bin/sh

### Created by Periklis Master_ex Ntanasis ###
### https://gist.github.com/gists/1047986  ###

# global variables
FILE="deafult.rss"

function open {
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>
<rss xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\" version=\"2.0\">
  <channel>
    <atom:link href=\"$1\" rel=\"self\" type=\"application/rss+xml\"/>
    <title>$2</title>
    <link>$3</link>
    <description>$4</description>" > $FILE
}

function close {
echo "  </channel>
</rss>" >> $FILE
}

#don't forget to set description
function oitem {
echo "    <item>
        <title>$1</title>
        <link>$2</link>
        <description>$description</description>">> $FILE
}

function citem {
echo "    </item>">> $FILE
}

function language {
	echo "    <language>$1</language>">> $FILE
}

function copyright {
	echo "    <copyright>$1</copyright>">> $FILE
}

function managingEditor {
	echo "    <managingEditor>$1</managingEditor>">> $FILE
}

function webMaster {
	echo "    <webMaster>$1</webMaster>">> $FILE
}

function pubDate {
	echo "    <pubDate>$1</pubDate>">> $FILE
}

function lastBuildDate {
	echo "    <lastBuildDate>$1</lastBuildDate>">> $FILE
}

function category {
	echo "    <category>$1</category>">> $FILE
}

function generator {
	echo "    <generator>$1</generator>">> $FILE
}

function docs {
	echo "    <docs>$1</docs>">> $FILE
}

function cloud {
	echo "    <cloud domain=\"$1\" port=\"$2\" path=\"$3\" registerProcedure=\"$4\" protocol=\"$5\" />">> $FILE
}

function ttl {
	echo "    <ttl>$1</ttl>">> $FILE
}

function image {
	echo "    <image>
	  <url>$1</url>
	  <title>$2</title>
	  <link>$3</link>
    </image>">> $FILE
}

function rating {
	echo "    <rating>$1</rating>">> $FILE
}

function textInput {
	echo "    <textInput>
	  <title>$1</title>
	  <description>$2</description>
	  <name>$3</name>
	  <link>$4</link>
    </textInput>">> $FILE
}

function skipHours {
	echo "    <skipHours>$1</skipHours>">> $FILE
}

function skipDays {
	echo "    <skipDays>$1</skipDays>">> $FILE
}

function author {
	echo "        <author>$1</author>">> $FILE
}

function category {
	echo "        <category>$1</category>">> $FILE
}

function categoryd {
	echo "        <category domain=\"$1\">$2</category>">> $FILE
}

function comments {
	echo "        <comments>$1</comments>">> $FILE
}

function enclosure {
	echo "        <enclosure>$1</enclosure>">> $FILE
}

function guid {
	echo "        <guid>$1</guid>">> $FILE
}

function ipubDate {
	echo "        <pubDate>$1</pubDate>">> $FILE
}

function source {
	echo "        <source>$1</source>">> $FILE
}

testrss.sh

#!/bin/sh
. rsswriter.sh

FILE="output.rss"

open http://www.google.com/file.rss yo http://www.google.com "hello wold"
language "en-us"
generator "just a shell script rss writer"
oitem "AUEB FOSS COMMUNITY" http://foss.aueb.gr "awesome foss stuff!"
category "open source"
category "free software"
citem
oitem "MasterEx @ GitHub" https://github.com/MasterEx "social coding!"
author "Periklis Ntanasis"
category "code repo"
citem
close