use XML::RSS::Tools; my $feed = 'http://rss.example.com/'; my $xslt = '/path/to/stylesheet'; my $rss = XML::RSS::Tools->new; if ($rss->rss_uri($feed) && $rss->xsl_file($xslt) && $rss->transform) { print $rss->as_string } else { print $rss->as_string('error') };