RSS to have a param html=on/off so it removes <p> and such stuff that bots (IRC, Jabber) do not understand

[Nikos Kouremenos]

subj says it all.

also the params (all of them) should be documents in TracRss page

[karltk@…]

The embedded HTML without proper namespaces confuses a lot of feed readers. Also it prevents the feed from validating properly.

As an example, try sending the RSS feed for ​http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/timeline to ​http://feedvalidator.org; you will see that the Trac RSS feed on the Trac site itself doesn't even validate:)

[Christian Boos]

The Trac feed doesn't validate right now because it's still running an older version of Trac. The problem is now fixed in the 0.9-stable branch (see r2829), which will be available for the upcoming 0.9.4 release.

Besides, closer to the subject of this ticket, it was decided that we don't want to offer an option to leave the HTML out of the RSS feed. See

• #2580
• attachment:ticket:2580:rss_html_escape.diff​ for a hint about adding a rss_html_escape boolean switch as requested in this ticket.