Title: Apache Velocity Tools - FeedTool

## FeedTool

[FeedTool](FeedTool.mdtext) is a tool providing the ability to retrieve and manipulate RSS and Atom feeds from within Velocity templates. It is built upon the [Rome API](https://rometools.github.io/rome/).

The tool works by retrieving a feed from a specified URI and returning it in a ContextFeedWrapper class. The idea with the wrapper class is to have a convenient location for the provision of convenience methods for feed and feed entry manipulation ... although it could easily be incorporated into a single class.

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### Dependencies

* [Rome API](https://rometools.github.io/rome/)

        :::xml
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.rometools</groupId>
            <artifactId>rome</artifactId>
            <version>1.10.0</version>
        </dependency>

* [Rome Fetcher](https://rometools.github.io/rome/Fetcher/index.html)

        :::xml
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.rometools</groupId>
            <artifactId>rome-fetcher</artifactId>
            <version>1.10.0</version>
        </dependency>

* [JDom2](http://www.jdom.org/)

        ::xml
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jdom</groupId>
            <artifactId>jdom2</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.6</version>
        </dependency>

### Code

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