I have a client who is asking to format the RSS feed so the XML doesn’t look so ugly. I was thinking of a plugin or something to detect the user-agent and modify the feed template based on a regular browser request as opposed to a reader that will need the raw XML. Does it sound like I’m on the right track? I was going to use something like feedburner, but this site has many authors and they add new ones all the time and don’t want to have to setup something at feedburner for every new feed they get.
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You won’t need browser detection, RSS (as XML) can be styled without losing compatibility with machine readers. I believe the format for that is XSLT.
Unfortunately I have little hands on experience with XSLT and none in context of WordPress feeds, so can’t give solid example.