res.contentType = "text/xml";
res.dependsOn(this.lastupdate);
res.digest();

var now = new Date();
var systitle = root.getSysTitle();
var w3fmt = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'+01:00'";

var size = this.allstories.size();
var max = req.data.max ? parseInt(req.data.max) : 7;
max = Math.min(max, size);
max = Math.min(max, 10);

var param = new Object();
if (max > 0 && this.online) {
   var items = "";
   var resources = "";
   this.allstories.prefetchChildren(0, max);
   for (var i=0; i<max; i++) {
      var story = this.allstories.get(i);
      param.url = story.href();
      param.title = clipText(story.getRenderedContentPart("title"), 50);
      param.text = clipText(story.getRenderedContentPart("text"), 500);
      // shit happens: if a content part contains a markup
      // element only clipText() will return nothing...
      if (!param.text && !param.title)
         param.title = "...";
      param.publisher = systitle;
      param.creator = story.creator.name;
      param.email = "";
      if (story.creator.publishemail)
         param.email = translateToEntities(story.creator.email);
      param.date = story.modifytime.format(w3fmt);
      param.subject = story.topic ? story.topic : "";
      param.year = story.modifytime.getYear();
      items += story.renderSkinAsString("rssItem", param);
      resources += story.renderSkinAsString("rssResource", param);
   }
   
   param = new Object();
   param.url = this.href();
   param.title = systitle;
   param.creator = this.creator.name
   if (this.creator.publishemail)
      param.email = translateToEntities(this.creator.email);
   param.year = now.getYear();
   param.lastupdate = max > 0 ? this.lastUpdate.format(w3fmt): this.createtime.format(w3fmt);

   param.items = items;
   param.resources = resources;
   
   this.renderSkin("rss", param);
}