Saw a couple people asking how to do this, but didn't find any explanation - so here is a way to strip all html tags out of the description, assuming you are using a customized xsl for the stylesheet:

Replace: <xsl:value-of select="description"/>
with: <xsl:apply-templates select="description" />

And replace:
<xsl:template match="description">
  <br>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </br>
</xsl:template>

With:
<xsl:template match="description">
    <xsl:call-template name="strip-tags">
        <xsl:with-param name="text" select="."/>
    </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="strip-tags">
    <xsl:param name="text"/>
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="contains($text, '&lt;')">
            <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text, '&lt;')"/>
            <xsl:call-template name="strip-tags">
                    <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text, '&gt;')"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

...and that should do it.

Greetings:

Actually, there is a post from 12/25/2005 "Google News Feeds Output HTML" (in this forum) which provides a single parm addition in a tag, to solve the problem.  I just loaded v3.3.5 and couldn't beleive this issue exists.  Perhaps there's a reason I'm not aware of that HTML code would need to be displayed to the user?

Ed in Tampa

 

clyoungberg...

Thank you clarifying that difference. 

If I may take advantage of your expertise, I've an RSS question that may not be related to the DNN module.  I've a news feed I'm using in that module (http://www.tampagov.net/appl_rss_feeds/rss.asp?feed=news) that doesn't return the date/time stamp of the news events, as I often see in other news feeds.

Question: Is that a function of how the XML used in the feed is constructed (I've no control over), or do I need to set some other parm to view these dates in the module?

Any and all guidance is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Ed in Tampa