Doing a pretty raw format of the results of a View

Hi all -

Forgive what may be a foolish question. Views 2 is so powerful that, when I needed a custom XML feed of certain chunks of my data, I thought I could use a View display and create my own template for it which would output my custom XML, rather than HTML.

Ideally, I guess I would create my own feed type by copying and modifying the RSS one, but that seems a bit complex for a one-off special, unless there's a tidy way to do this?

So I'm trying to do a custom template for RSS using views-view-rss--Myview.tpl.php, because this lets me get around the page-level formatting, but I'm not quite sure whether this is sensible - it gets passed all sorts of things that I don't need and I think I may be going about this the wrong way.

Basically, when a particular view, or particular display of a view, is requested as a page, I would like to be able to return certain fields of the nodes as XML without all the surrounding standard page templating. Is this possible?

Any help very much appreciated!