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    <p>First off, an RSS reader does read XML. However it reads XML files that have a specific structure (RSS). The file source you show above is not in the RSS structure, so an RSS reader would not be able to understand it. A more general XML reader would be able to parse it for you, but you'd need to tell it what to do with the data (it wouldn't inherently know how you want the various elements placed on the page).</p> <p>Joomla is built on PHP and has the capability to add in extensions and user-created code. Usually this conforms to the Model/Controller/View design principle, but if you create just one PHP page that fetches the XML, parses it with PHP's XML parser, and echoes out the content you want, you can install that into Joomla as a Component and have a menu item point to it, or install it as a Module and have it appear in the sidebar of another page.</p> <p>If you don't want to deal with the internal workings of Joomla, you could have an outside script on your server (using PHP or another programming language) that captures the XML file from the remote server, parses it with its XML reader, and turns around and outputs the same content in an RSS-structured XML file. Then you could point Joomla's RSS reader at that external script that's acting as an interpreter of the data.</p> <p>Or if your goal is to allow users to download the file from your website and do something else with it, either put a link in an Article to the file on a remote server, or install an extension like <a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/downloads/5551" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Phoca Download</a>, which would allow your Joomla installation to host the file yourself and track the number of downloads and set security on the file.</p>
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