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• Now seems a good time to mention that you can beautify your XML RSS/Atom feeds without XSLT using CSS and JS.

  You can add a stylesheet to an Atom feed by adding a <link> tag with an xmlns attribute, like this:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
      <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
          <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" />
          <!-- ... the rest of the feed goes here ... -->
  

  Or add styles directly with a <style> tag:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
      <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
          <style xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><![CDATA[
              * { color: red; }
          ]]></style>
          <!-- ... the rest of the feed goes here ... -->
  

  You can even run JavaScript when users browse to your feed like this:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
      <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
          <script src="script.js" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" />
          <!-- ... the rest of the feed goes here ... -->
  

  You can use JS to transform your XML, just like you can (could) with XSLT.
  by dfabulich