CGI (Python)

def applyTemplate(templateFile, params={}):
    template = open(os.path.join('templates', templateFile))
    result = template.read() % params
    template.close()
    return result

print 'Content-type: text/xml'
print

try:
    # validate
    events, rawdata = rssvalid.validate(sys.stdin)

    # format as xml
    from rssvalid.formatter.text_xml import Formatter
    output = Formatter((events, rawdata))

    # output
    print applyTemplate('soap.tmpl', {'body':"\n".join(output)})

except:
    import traceback
    tb = ''.join(apply(traceback.format_exception, sys.exc_info()))

    from rssvalid.formatter.text_xml import xmlEncode
    print applyTemplate('fault.tmpl', {'code':sys.exc_info()[0],
      'string':sys.exc_info()[1], 'traceback':xmlEncode(tb)})