new draft: prettify-hugo-rss-feed-xslt

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+title: "Prettify Hugo Rss Feed Xslt"
+date: 2024-04-29
+# lastmod: 2024-04-29
+draft: true
+description: "This is a new post about..."
+featured: false
+toc: true
+comments: true
+categories: Backstage
+tags:
+  - hugo
+  - meta
+---
+I spent a bit of time several months back making my sure my site's RSS would work well in a feed reader. This meant making a *lot* of modifications to the [default Hugo RSS template](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/tpl/tplimpl/embedded/templates/_default/rss.xml). I made it load the full article text rather than just the summary, present correctly-formatted code blocks with no loss of important whitespace, include inline images, and even pass online validation checks:
+
+[![Validate my RSS feed](valid-rss-rogers.png)](http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A//runtimeterror.dev/feed.xml)
+
+But while the feed looks great when rendered by a reader, the browser presentation left some to be desired...
+
+![Ugly RSS rendered without styling](ugly-rss.png)
+
+It feels like there should be a friendlier way to present a feed "landing page" to help users new to RSS figure out what they need to do in order to follow a blog - and there absolutely is. In much the same way that you can prettify plain HTML with the inclusion of a CSS stylesheet, you can also style boring XML using [eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)](https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xsl_intro.asp).
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+So this post will describe how I styled