No `to_xml` for Rss2 module?

[sgrove]

There seems to be a Syndic.Atom.to_xml: feed => Syndic_xml.t, but no corresponding Syndic.Rss2.to_xml.

I'd like to be able to serialize back out to a string the whole feed (or ideally even just the individual feed items). Perhaps I should be looking at some external serializing library?

[Chris00]

In the meantime (while this is developed), why not convert it to an Atom feed and then to XML?

[sgrove]

@Chris00 In this case, it's important that I keep the RSS2 format, and I'm not sure that RSS2 -> Atom -> XML -> RSS2 would actually round-trip. It would definitely work if I just used Atom, but that's not the interface I have unfortunately.

[Chris00]

OK, I understand. I do not have much time to work on this ATM unfortunately — maybe @dinosaure has? If you cannot contribute a PR, could you at least provide a file testing all features of RSS2 so we can use it as a round trip test. Thanks.

[yawaramin]

Sean, you've probably long since solved this issue :-) but I thought I'd put in a pointer for people who are still looking to serialize an RSS feed into an XML-encoded string: https://yawaramin.github.io/dream-html/pure-html/Pure_html/RSS/index.html

Eg https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html/blob/dffaa416143c8d83542af5ba78f0fadfc8cb98dd/test/pure_html_test.ml#L357