I can confirm the script works. I’m pulling a localized feed into an international version of WP. Some date formatting issues arise, resulting in new items being assigned a 1970 date. I have altered the ‘gmdate’ statement to reflect the date notation, but I wonder whether this will work, without some internal translation routines.
Furthermore I discovered some character display problems, but this also could be attributed to the localized feed. Will post more, once I find out.