Hi Folks,

I'm running DNN 4.3.5 ... the News Feed module works fine for most feeds, but all feeds from FeedBurner show html tags ... for example this CNN feed:

Source: N. Korea may drop test if U.S. holds talks
Read full story for latest details. <p><a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_topstories?a=84wxgR"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_topstories?i=84wxgR" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~4/34489138"/>

What's the fix for this?

Joe

Hi Joe,

Can you give me the URL of the feed that you are having trouble with.  I can try it out in the latest beta and see how it behaves.  I can also send you the latest beta if you want to try it out yourself. 

If i had to guess, I would say that the feed iteself is encoding the HTML, so that when it renders on the screen, you get what you are seeing rather than the browser actually rendering the HTML.  If you send me an example feed I can confirm that one way or another.

Thanks,

Josh

Yep, looked at the feed, and the info is being encoded.  If you view the source of the feed, in the description element, you will see that instead of something like '<B>' you will see something like '& lt;B& gt;' (excluding the space between the ampersand and the lt/gt which I left out so it didn't get rendered as < or >). 

Not sure off the top of my head how to create a custom xsl to decode it first.  I suspect you can.  If anyone else reading this knows the command to do it then feel free to chime in.  You might also be able to find it by searching google for something like 'decode HTML using XSL' or something like that.  The idea is that you decode it first back to the < and >, so that when it comes time to render it, it gets interpreted as normal HTML.

I have added an issue to Gemini to consider a future feature to allow you to easily do this by selecting a checkbox in a feed settings:

http://support.dotnetnuke.com/issue/ViewIssue.aspx?id=4429