bill - 1:04 am on Jan 8, 2010 (gmt 0)

We don't like to recommend specific tools a lot because the tool makers then spam us with links to their sites. There are a bunch of software packages that claim to do what you're asking, but I have no experience with them. Look for how to create RSS from HTML [bing.com] or HTML to RSS [bing.com] scripts.

I have some sites that I manually update RSS for, but I don't trust those scraper packages. I just add the info I want in a text editor directly. Then I know the feed has what I want in it. However, those feeds don't update all that often.

The simple option would be for you to incorporate a blog software, like MovableType, to be part of the publishing of your articles. The software publishes the HTML into your page template, and then you use the software's back end to create the RSS and ping the directories. I've done this with one site and it's simple and works just fine. MT generates static HTML pages by default, and you can specify the path/filename to match your site. It looks just like your own site.