#! /usr/bin/ruby
 # Create an HTML string from the current feed items.
 # This will appear in the RubyRiver content area.
 def gen_items
   # Read the entire RSS file into memory.
   doc = Document.new(File.read(get_param("rubyriver.yml","internalfeed")+".xml"))
 


   # Read the item template into memory.  templatestr = File.read("item.html")
   # Extract each RSS item.
   # Merge with the item template to create a string of HTML.
   itemstr = ""  doc.elements.each('rubyriver/channel/item') do |item|     currentitemstr = templatestr
     currentitemstr = currentitemstr.gsub("<*itemlink*>", item.elements['link'].text)
     currentitemstr = currentitemstr.gsub("<*itemtitle*>", item.elements['title'].text)
     currentitemstr = currentitemstr.gsub("<*feedlink*>", item.elements['feedlink'].text)
     currentitemstr = currentitemstr.gsub("<*feedtitle*>", item.elements['feedtitle'].text)
     currentitemstr = currentitemstr.gsub("<*itemdate*>", item.elements['pubDate'].text[0..21])
     currentitemstr = currentitemstr.gsub("<*description*>", item.elements['description'].text)
 


     itemstr += currentitemstr
   end
   return itemstr
 end