XSLT - showing HTML tags from RSS feeds

feenster99 · 18 Jul 2007 at 18:51

Hi all,
I'm just experimenting with XSLT for the first time today. I'm trying to take an RSS feed, and display it to the screen - I've got that bit working fine.

However, i'm falling over when it comes to displaying HTML that is embedded in the RSS feed properly. For example, the description of the article has <strong></strong> tags in. This seems to be being converted into HTML entities. How can I stop this, and display it as HTML?

Cheers,
Matt

feenster99 · 18 Jul 2007 at 22:14

Here's an example feed i'm trying to parse:
http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/rss/Press.rss

Bit new to XSLT, so not too sure what CDATA is

Matt

feenster99 · 18 Jul 2007 at 22:25

Hi,
Thanks for that - that does clear it up.

The main feed I was looking at was this one:
http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/rss/status.rss

This is the one that has the HTML done as entities instead of tags. Why would they have done this?

Cheers,
Matt

feenster99 · 18 Jul 2007 at 23:07

So is there any way to replace the entities with the correct characters so it will render as proper HTML on-screen?

Matt