cloudscribe · JimKerslake · Sep 22, 2025 · Apr 16, 2025 · Apr 16, 2025 · Apr 22, 2025
diff --git a/src/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web/Controllers/RssController.cs b/src/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web/Controllers/RssController.cs
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using System.Xml.Linq;
 
 namespace cloudscribe.Syndication.Web.Controllers
 {
@@ -75,6 +77,9 @@ public virtual async Task<IActionResult> Index()
 
             var xml = XmlFormatter.BuildXml(currentChannel);
 
+            var processingInstruction = new XProcessingInstruction("xml-stylesheet", "type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"/rss-style.xsl\"");
+            xml.AddFirst(processingInstruction);
+
             return new XmlResult(xml);
 
         }

diff --git a/src/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web/buildTransitive/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web.targets b/src/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web/buildTransitive/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web.targets
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<Project>
+  <Target Name="CopyRssAssets" AfterTargets="Build">
+    <Message Text="Running CopyRssAssets" Importance="High" />
+    <ItemGroup>
+		<RssAsset Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)\rss-style.xsl" />
+		<RssAsset Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)\rss.css" />
+    </ItemGroup>
+
+    <Message Text="Checking file: %(RssAsset.Identity)" Importance="High" />
+
+    <Copy
+      SourceFiles="@(RssAsset)"
+      DestinationFiles="@(RssAsset->'$(ProjectDir)wwwroot\%(Filename)%(Extension)')"
+      SkipUnchangedFiles="true"
+      Condition="!Exists('$(ProjectDir)wwwroot\rss-style.xsl') Or !Exists('$(ProjectDir)wwwroot\rss.css')" />
+  </Target>
+</Project>
diff --git a/src/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web/buildTransitive/rss-style.xsl b/src/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web/buildTransitive/rss-style.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<xsl:stylesheet version="3.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
+	<xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
+	<xsl:template match="/">
+		<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+			<head>
+				<title>
+					<xsl:value-of select="/rss/channel/title"/>
+				</title>
+				<meta charset="utf-8"/>
+				<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
+				<link rel="stylesheet" href="/rss.css"/>
+			</head>
+			<body>
+				<header>
+					<h1>
+						<xsl:value-of select="/rss/channel/title"/>
+					</h1>
+					<p>
+						<xsl:value-of select="/rss/channel/description"/>
+					</p>
+				</header>
+				<main>
+					<xsl:for-each select="/rss/channel/item">
+						<article>
+							<h3>
+								<a>
+									<xsl:attribute name="href">
+										<xsl:value-of select="link"/>
+									</xsl:attribute>
+									<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
+								</a>
+							</h3>
+							<p>
+								<xsl:value-of select="description"/>
+							</p>
+							<p>
+								<xsl:value-of select="pubDate"/>
+							</p>
+						</article>
+					</xsl:for-each>
+				</main>
+			</body>
+		</html>
+	</xsl:template>
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/src/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web/buildTransitive/rss.css b/src/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web/buildTransitive/rss.css
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+* {
+    box-sizing: border-box;
+    font-family: sans-serif;
+    line-height: 1.4;
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0;
+}
+
+html {
+    background: #FFFFFF;
+    color: #212529;
+}
+
+body {
+    padding: 1.5rem;
+}
+
+a {
+    color: #337ab7;
+}
+
+    a:hover {
+        color: #296292;
+    }
+
+main, header {
+    margin-block-end: 3rem;
+    margin-inline: auto;
+    max-inline-size: 80ch;
+}
+
+article {
+    margin-block-end: 3rem;
+}
+
+h1 {
+    font-size: 2.5rem;
+    line-height: 1.2;
+    margin-block: 1rem;
+}
+
+h2 {
+    font-size: 2rem;
+    margin-block: 2rem;
+}
+
+h3 {
+    font-size: 1.75rem;
+    margin-block: 1rem;
+}
+
+p {
+    font-size: 1.25rem;
+    margin-block-end: 1rem;
+}
+
+small {
+    font-size: 1rem;
+}
diff --git a/src/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web.csproj b/src/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web.csproj
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Description>asp.netcore mvc controller for rss feeds</Description>
-    <Version>8.4.0</Version>
+    <Version>8.5.0</Version>
     <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
     <Authors>Joe Audette</Authors>
     <PackageTags>cloudscribe;syndication;rss;atom;feed</PackageTags>
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
   <ItemGroup>
     <FrameworkReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" />
   </ItemGroup>
-
-
+
+  <ItemGroup>
+	<None Include="buildTransitive\cloudscribe.Syndication.Web.targets" Pack="true" PackagePath="buildTransitive/cloudscribe.Syndication.Web.targets" />
+    <None Include="buildTransitive\rss-style.xsl" Pack="true" PackagePath="buildTransitive/" />
+    <None Include="buildTransitive\rss.css" Pack="true" PackagePath="buildTransitive/" />
+  </ItemGroup>
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/cloudscribe.Syndication/cloudscribe.Syndication.csproj b/src/cloudscribe.Syndication/cloudscribe.Syndication.csproj
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Description>cloudscribe.Syndication Class Library</Description>
-    <Version>8.4.0</Version>
+    <Version>8.5.0</Version>
     <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
     <Authors>Joe Audette</Authors>
     <PackageTags>cloudscribe;syndication;rss;atom;feed;xml</PackageTags>
@@ -23,11 +23,7 @@
     <None Include="icon.png" Pack="true" PackagePath="\" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
-
   <ItemGroup>
     <FrameworkReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" />
   </ItemGroup>
-
-
-
 </Project>
diff --git a/update_version.ps1 b/update_version.ps1
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
 $directory = "src"
 
 # Define the old & new versions
-$oldVersion = '8\.3'   # slash needed !
-$newVersion = "8.4.0"
-$newWildcardVersion = "8.4.*"
+$oldVersion = '8\.4'   # slash needed !
+$newVersion = "8.5.0"
+$newWildcardVersion = "8.5.*"
 
 
 # Get all .csproj files in the directory and subdirectories