Is it possible to have separate Rss feeds for blog categories?

I know I can do it with child blogs (which I am trying to stay away from at the moment).

 Thanks!

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Ed DeGagne
South Village Software

Looking at some work that Will Strohl did on the XML Utility for DNN Blogs open source project as well as the blog rss code, I authored a new Rss handler that provides rss feeds with options to:

1.) Show All (no category id passed in, just portalid and blogid).
2.) Show by Category (portalid, blogid, categoryid passed in).

Options:
1.) Show/Hide "Read More" link in description (morelink=true|false).
2.) Show/Hide tags in description (tags=true|false).
3.) Show/Hide categories in description (categories=true|false).
4.) Show/Hide copyright (copyright=true|false).
5.) EntryLimit (entrylimit=10), default is 10.

The feed has some corrections that are still bugs in the default blog rss:
1.) Trackback url is incorrect in DNN Blog feed; BlogTrackback.aspx does not exist, it is actually called trackback.aspx.
2.) Categories are shown each on their own line, this one places them all on one line (like tags).

Unlike Will's (which doesn't appear to work any longer), this code ONLY serves up Rss, it does not do any SiteMap stuff, and it only provides Rss 2.0 feeds and no Atom feed option (maybe if there is enough interest, I can add these features).

Other:
1.) If a category id is passed in, the title of the feed (which is the blog name) has the category name appended to it (e.g.: Company Blog - News & Announcements)

This solution cannot be packaged up as an installable module. It consists of two files:

1.) BlogRss.ashx (Can be placed anywhere in site, root or /DesktopModules/Blog/ makes the most sense).
2.) SVS.Utilities.BlogRss.dll - Must be placed in the bin directory.

I still have a little cleanup and code documentation to work on. I will make the two files available for download (in a zip) as well as the source code project (in a zip) on www.southvillage.com or on snowcovered when I am done with that cleanup.

If anyone needs it prior or has any questions, email me at edegagne (at) comcast (dot) net or ask here.

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Ed DeGagne
South Village Software