diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/MimetypeMap.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/MimetypeMap.java
index 473dea5253..142545fb1d 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/MimetypeMap.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/MimetypeMap.java
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ public class MimetypeMap implements MimetypeService
     public static final String MIMETYPE_IMAGE_SVG = "image/svg";
     public static final String MIMETYPE_JAVASCRIPT = "application/x-javascript";
     public static final String MIMETYPE_ZIP = "application/zip";
+    public static final String MIMETYPE_OPENSEARCH_DESCRIPTION = "application/opensearchdescription+xml";
+    public static final String MIMETYPE_ATOM = "application/atom+xml";
+    public static final String MIMETYPE_RSS = "application/rss+xml";
     // Open Document
     public static final String MIMETYPE_OPENDOCUMENT_TEXT = "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text";
     public static final String MIMETYPE_OPENDOCUMENT_TEXT_TEMPLATE = "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-template";
diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/template/AbsoluteUrlMethod.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/template/AbsoluteUrlMethod.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..252c069224
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/template/AbsoluteUrlMethod.java
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1 
+ * with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a
+ * copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
+ * either express or implied. See the License for the specific
+ * language governing permissions and limitations under the
+ * License.
+ */
+package org.alfresco.repo.template;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import freemarker.template.TemplateMethodModelEx;
+import freemarker.template.TemplateModelException;
+import freemarker.template.TemplateScalarModel;
+
+/**
+ * @author David Caruana
+ * 
+ * Custom FreeMarker Template language method.
+ * <p>
+ * Render absolute url for the specified url (only if the url isn't already absolute).
+ * <p>
+ * Usage: absurl(String url)
+ */
+public final class AbsoluteUrlMethod implements TemplateMethodModelEx
+{
+    private String basePath;
+    
+    /**
+     * Construct
+     * 
+     * @param basePath  base path used to construct absolute url
+     */
+    public AbsoluteUrlMethod(String basePath)
+    {
+        this.basePath = basePath;
+    }
+    
+    
+    /**
+     * @see freemarker.template.TemplateMethodModel#exec(java.util.List)
+     */
+    public Object exec(List args) throws TemplateModelException
+    {
+        String result = "";
+        
+        if (args.size() == 1)
+        {
+            Object arg0 = args.get(0);
+            if (arg0 instanceof TemplateScalarModel)
+            {
+                result = ((TemplateScalarModel)arg0).getAsString();
+                if (result.startsWith("/"))
+                {
+                    result = basePath + result;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        
+        return result;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/template/FreeMarkerProcessor.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/template/FreeMarkerProcessor.java
index 77ed6e87ac..f24304f0e0 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/template/FreeMarkerProcessor.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/template/FreeMarkerProcessor.java
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ public class FreeMarkerProcessor implements TemplateProcessor
      * 
      * @return FreeMarker configuration
      */
-    private Configuration getConfig()
+    protected Configuration getConfig()
     {
         Configuration config = new Configuration();
         
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ public class FreeMarkerProcessor implements TemplateProcessor
      * 
      * @return FreeMarker configuration
      */
-    private Configuration getStringConfig(String path, String template)
+    protected Configuration getStringConfig(String path, String template)
     {
         Configuration config = new Configuration();