+  /**
+   * Get the headers from a URL.
+   */
+  private static function getUrlInfo($url) {
+    $ch = curl_init($url);
+    curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
+      CURLOPT_HEADER => TRUE,
+      CURLOPT_NOBODY => TRUE,
+      // Follow http redirects to get the real URL.
+      CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE,
+      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
+      CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => FALSE,
+      CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE,
+      CURLOPT_USERAGENT => Tweeper::$userAgent,
+    ));
+    curl_exec($ch);
+    $url_info = curl_getinfo($ch);
+    curl_close($ch);
+
+    return $url_info;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Generate an RSS <enclosure/> element.
+   */
+  public static function generateEnclosure($url) {
+    $supported_content_types = array(
+      "application/ogg",
+      "audio/aac",
+      "audio/mp4",
+      "audio/mpeg",
+      "audio/ogg",
+      "audio/vorbis",
+      "audio/wav",
+      "audio/webm",
+      "audio/x-midi",
+      "image/gif",
+      "image/jpeg",
+      "image/png",
+      "video/avi",
+      "video/mp4",
+      "video/mpeg",
+      "video/ogg",
+    );
+
+    $url_info = Tweeper::getUrlInfo($url);
+
+    $supported = in_array($url_info['content_type'], $supported_content_types);
+    if (!$supported) {
+      error_log("Unsupported enclosure content type \"" . $url_info['content_type'] . "\" for URL: " . $url_info['url']);
+      return '';
+    }
+
+    // The RSS specification says that the enclosure element URL must be http.
+    // See http://sourceforge.net/p/feedvalidator/bugs/72/
+    $http_url = preg_replace("/^https/", "http", $url_info['url']);
+
+    $dom = new DOMDocument();
+    $enc = $dom->createElement('enclosure');
+    $enc->setAttribute('url', $http_url);
+    $enc->setAttribute('length', $url_info['download_content_length']);
+    $enc->setAttribute('type', $url_info['content_type']);
+
+    return $enc;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Mimic the message from libxml.c::php_libxml_ctx_error_level()
+   */
+  private static function logXmlError($error) {
+    $output = "";
+
+    switch ($error->level) {
+      case LIBXML_ERR_WARNING:
+        $output .= "Warning $error->code: ";
+        break;
+
+      case LIBXML_ERR_ERROR:
+        $output .= "Error $error->code: ";
+        break;
+
+      case LIBXML_ERR_FATAL:
+        $output .= "Fatal Error $error->code: ";
+        break;
+    }
+
+    $output .= trim($error->message);
+
+    if ($error->file) {
+      $output .= " in $error->file";
+    }
+    else {
+      $output .= " in Entity,";
+    }
+
+    $output .= " line $error->line";
+
+    error_log($output);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Convert json to XML.
+   */
+  private static function jsonToXml($json, $root_node_name) {
+    // Apparently the ObjectNormalizer used afterwards is not able to handle
+    // the stdClass object created by json_decode() with the default setting
+    // $assoc = false; so use $assoc = true.
+    $data = json_decode($json, $assoc = TRUE);
+    if (!$data) {
+      return NULL;
+    }
+
+    $encoder = new XmlEncoder();
+    $normalizer = new ObjectNormalizer();
+    $serializer = new Serializer(array($normalizer), array($encoder));
+
+    $serializer_options = array(
+      'xml_encoding' => "UTF-8",
+      'xml_format_output' => TRUE,
+      'xml_root_node_name' => $root_node_name,
+    );