public function __construct($name, $description, $url, $language)
{
// create a dom xml object
$this->document = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
// create our rss feed
$rss = $this->element('rss', null, array('version' => '2.0', 'xmlns:atom' => 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'));
$this->document->appendChild($rss);
// create channel
$this->channel = $this->element('channel');
$rss->appendChild($this->channel);
// title
$title = $this->element('title', $name);
$this->channel->appendChild($title);
// link
$link = $this->element('link', $url);
$this->channel->appendChild($link);
// description
$description = $this->element('description', $description);
$this->channel->appendChild($description);
// laguage
// http://www.rssboard.org/rss-language-codes
$language = $this->element('language', $language);
$this->channel->appendChild($language);
$ttl = $this->element('ttl', 60);
$this->channel->appendChild($ttl);
$docs = $this->element('docs', 'http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss');
$this->channel->appendChild($docs);
$copyright = $this->element('copyright', $name);
$this->channel->appendChild($copyright);
// atom self link
$atom = $this->element('atom:link', null, array('href' => $url, 'rel' => 'self', 'type' => 'application/rss+xml'));
$this->channel->appendChild($atom);
}