<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Captive Israeli soldier now a children's author : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>47196</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/47196/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Captive Israeli soldier now a children's author]]></title><description><![CDATA[Years before he was a soldier seized by Palestinian militants, 11-year-old Gilad Schalit penned a simple parable about how enemies can get along. 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