diff --git a/rss/rss.pl b/rss/rss.pl
index 761f53ec16..edf8bd6823 100755
--- a/rss/rss.pl
+++ b/rss/rss.pl
@@ -1,108 +1,35 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
-# This script can be used to generate rss 0.91 files for syndication.
+<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications/DTD RSS 0.91/EN"
+          "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
 
+<rss version="0.91">
 
-# it should be run from cron like:
-#
-#    rss.pl config.conf
-#
+<channel>
+ <title><!-- TMPL_VAR name="CHANNELTITLE" --></title>
+ <link><!-- TMPL_VAR name="CHANNELLINK" --></link>
+ <description><!-- TMPL_VAR name="CHANNELDESC" --></description>
+ <language><!-- TMPL_VAR name="CHANNELLANG" --></language>
+ <lastBuildDate><!-- TMPL_VAR name="CHANNELLASTBUILD" --></lastBuildDate>
 
-# Copyright 2003 Katipo Communications
-#
-# This file is part of Koha.
-#
-# Koha is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
-# terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-#
-# Koha is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
-# WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
-# A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
-# Koha; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,
-# Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307 USA
+ <image>
+  <title><!-- TMPL_VAR name="IMAGETITLE" --></title>
+  <url><!-- TMPL_VAR name="IMAGEURL" --></url>
+  <link><!-- TMPL_VAR name="IMAGELINK" --></link>
+ </image>
 
+<!-- TMPL_LOOP NAME="ITEMS" -->
+ <item>
+  <title><!-- TMPL_VAR name="TITLE" --><!-- TMPL_IF NAME="SUBTITLE" --> <!-- TMPL_VAR name="SUBTITLE" --><!-- /TMPL_IF --><!-- TMPL_IF NAME="AUTHOR" -->, by <!-- TMPL_VAR name="AUTHOR" --><!-- /TMPL_IF --></title>
+        <category><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="itemtype" --></category>
+        <description><![CDATA[Call Number: <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="callno" --><br />
+        <!-- TMPL_IF NAME="notes" -->Notes: <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="notes" --><br /><!-- /TMPL_IF -->
+<a href="https://libcat.nbbc.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="bibid" -->">View Details</a> <!-- TMPL_IF NAME="reservable" -->| <a href="https://libcat.nbbc.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-reserve.pl?bib=<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="bibid" -->">Reserve this Item</a><!-- /TMPL_IF -->]]>
+</description>
+  <link>https://libcat.nbbc.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=<!-- TMPL_VAR name="bibid" --></link>
 
-use strict;
-use HTML::Template;
-use C4::Context;
-use Time::Local;
-use POSIX;
+ </item>
+<!-- /TMPL_LOOP -->
 
-my $dbh = C4::Context->dbh;
-my $file = $ARGV[0];
-my %config = getConf("config");
-my $outFile = $config{"output"};
-my $feed = HTML::Template->new(filename => $config{"tmpl"});
-
-my %channel = getConf("channel");
-$feed->param(CHANNELTITLE => $channel{'title'});
-$feed->param(CHANNELLINK => $channel{'link'});
-$feed->param(CHANNELDESC => $channel{'desc'});
-$feed->param(CHANNELLANG => $channel{'lang'});
-$feed->param(CHANNELLASTBUILD => getDate());
-
-my %image = getConf("image");
-$feed->param(IMAGETITLE => $image{'title'});
-$feed->param(IMAGEURL => $image{'url'});
-$feed->param(IMAGELINK => $image{'link'});
-$feed->param(IMAGEDESCRIPTION => $image{'description'});
-$feed->param(IMAGEWIDTH => $image{'width'});
-$feed->param(IMAGEHEIGHT => $image{'height'});
-
-#
-# handle the items
-#
-$feed->param(ITEMS => getItems($config{'query'}));
-
-open(FILE, ">$outFile") or die "can't open $outFile";
-print FILE $feed->output();
-close FILE;
-
-sub getDate {
-#    my $date = localtime(timelocal(localtime));
-    my $date = strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z", localtime);
-    return $date;
-}
-
-sub getConf {
-    my $section = shift;
-    my %return;
-    my $inSection = 0;
-
-    open(FILE,$file) or die "can't open $file";
-    while (<FILE>) {
-	if ($inSection) {
-	    my @line = split(/=/,$_,2);
-	    unless ($line[1]) {
-		$inSection=0;
-	    } else {
-		my ($key, $value) = @line;
-		chomp $value;
-		$return{$key} = $value;
-	    }
-	} else {
-	    if ($_ eq "$section\n") { $inSection = 1 }
-	}
-    }
-    return %return;
-}
-sub getItems {
-    my $query = shift;
-    $query .= " limit 15";
-    my $sth=$dbh->prepare($query);
-    $sth->execute;
-    my @return;
-    while (my $data = $sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
-	foreach my $key (keys %$data) {
-	    my $value=$data->{$key};
-	    $value=~s/\&/\&amp;/g and $data->{$key}=$value;
-	}
-	push @return, $data;
-    }
-    $sth->finish;
-    return \@return;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+</channel>
+</rss>