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Getting ready

You will need the getResources Package for this task.

How to do it...

Create the parts you will need in your Manager

Create a blank template to use

Create a document and set the content type to xml

Create a snippet titled getTime and use the following code.

return strftime($scriptProperties['format']);

3.       Paste the code containing xml nodes, template variables, and snippet calls, example code.

How it works...

This recipe is courtesy of Gary Nutting, a MODx Core developer. This demonstrates how simple it is to generate RSS feeds in Revolution.

<title>Generating Custom RSS Feeds</title>

</channel>

</rss>

There's more...

Using this convention we can quickly and easily generate and maintain lists of feeds for our users to syndicate our content.