One occasionally needs to turn sets of Bugzilla bugs into nicely formatted html and text constructs. Bugzilla is very good about providing different this data in a variety of different formats. In particular, very pleasant Atom feeds can be obtained by appending ctype=atom to any search query.

This can be combined with xsltproc and stylesheets like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
                xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="atom:feed/atom:entry">
      <xsl:value-of select="atom:title"/>
      <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

or this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
                xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <xsl:template match="/"> 
    <ul>
      <xsl:for-each select="atom:feed/atom:entry">
        <li>
          <a><xsl:attribute name="href">
            <xsl:value-of select="atom:link/@href"/></xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(atom:title,']')"/>]
          </a> <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(atom:title,']')"/>
        </li>
      <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

like this:

curl -sS "http://tinyurl.com/5o5v52" | xsltproc buglist_to_html.xslt -