Publish to RSS from command line - rss

Question

From a Windows command line, I'd like to be able to publish to an RSS feed. I visualize something like this:
rsspub #builds "Build completed without errors."
Then, someone could go to my computer:
http://xp64-Matt:9090/builds/rss.xml
And there'd be a new entry with the date and time and the simple text "Build completed without errors."
I'd like the feed itself to run on a different port, so I'm not fighting with IIS or Apache, or whatever else I need to run on my computer on a day-to-day basis.
Does anything like this exist?

Answer 1

Here's a simple .Net 3.5 C# program that will create an RSS XML file that you can store in your IIS webroot:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.IO;
namespace CommandLineRSS
{
class Program
{
static void Main( string[] args )
{
var file = args[ 0 ];
var newEntry = args[ 1 ];
var xml = new XmlDocument();
if ( File.Exists( file ) )
xml.Load( file );
else
xml.LoadXml( #"<rss version='2.0'><channel /></rss>" );
var xmlNewEntry = Create( (XmlElement)xml.SelectSingleNode( "/rss/channel" ), "item" );
Create( xmlNewEntry, "title" ).InnerText = newEntry;
Create( xmlNewEntry, "pubDate" ).InnerText = DateTime.Now.ToString("R");
xml.Save( file );
}
private static XmlElement Create( XmlElement parent, string tag )
{
var a = parent.OwnerDocument.CreateElement( tag );
parent.AppendChild( a );
return a;
}
}
}
Then you can call it like this:
CommandLineRSS.exe c:\inetpub\wwwroot\builds.xml "Build completed with errors."