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myshko wrote: You could use 'escape' on your smarty tag to replace them with the correct html entities:

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{$rssItem|escape:'htmlall'}

Or replace them using str_replace in a User Defined Tag.

myshko wrote:Hi fmd,

I'll try, but I can't install the module RSS2HTML (XMLMadeSimple is a newer alternative) so I have to guess how your module is implemented.

The 'escape' method involves adding the smarty modifier at the end of a smarty tag called in your template.

When you call the RSS feed into your webpage, a template somewhere in the admin of that module is used to display each part.

Within this template, there will be a tag which displays the 'description' or body of the RSS.

It will be something like this:

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{$xml->channel->item[0]->description}

To escape the tag and convert characters to entities, add |escape:'html' to the end, like this:

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{$xml->channel->item[0]->description|escape:'html'}

This will work on any smarty tag that outputs a string of text.

If you are still stuck, post the template you use from RSS2HTML and I can give more specific suggestions.

Hope that makes more sense.

/m

{* RSS Feed List Template *}

<ul class="feed">

{foreach from=$xml->channel->item item=item name=post}
{if $smarty.foreach.post.iteration <= 3}
	<li>
		<h4><a rel="external" href="{$item->link}" title="Click to read {$item->title}">{$item->title}</a></h4>
		<p class="desc">{$item->description|truncate:120:"...":false}</p>
		<span class="date">~ {$item->pubDate|date_format:"%d/%m/%y"}</span>
		<a rel="external" class="more" href="{$item->link}" title="Click to read {$item->title}">read more~</a>
	</li>
{/if}
{/foreach}

</ul>

• {foreach from=$xml->channel->item item=item name=post} ~ Goes through the list of feeds and assigns each one as $item, we also set a name so we can limit how many posts we show.

• {if $smarty.foreach.post.iteration <= 3} ~ Says only display the first 3 items, change this if you want more or less items.

• {$item->link} ~ Displays item link

• {$item->title} ~ Displays title

• {$item->description|truncate:120:"...":false} ~ This outputs the description but limits (truncates) the characters displayed to 120.

• {$item->pubDate|date_format:"%d/%m/%y"} ~ Displays the date but rewrites the format as date/month/year.