Module: Syndication::Content

Included in:
RSS::Channel, RSS::Item
Defined in:
lib/syndication/content.rb

Overview

Mixin for RSS 1.0 content module.

This is the approved way to include actual HTML text in an RSS feed. To use it, require ‘syndication/content’ to add the content_encoded and content_decoded methods to the Syndication::Item class.

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Attribute Details

#content_encoded ⇒ Object

Actual web content, entity encoded or CDATA-escaped.



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# File 'lib/syndication/content.rb', line 14

def content_encoded
  @content_encoded
end

Instance Method Details

#content_decoded ⇒ Object

Decoded version of content_encoded, as HTML.



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# File 'lib/syndication/content.rb', line 17

def content_decoded
  if !@content_encoded or @content_encoded == ''
    return @content_encoded
  end
  # CDATA is the easier case
  if @content_encoded.match(/<!\[CDATA\[(.*)\]\]>/m)
    return $1
  end
  # Decode escaped entities
  x = @content_encoded.gsub(/&lt;/, '<')
  x.gsub!(/&gt;/, '>')
  return x.gsub(/&amp;/, '&')
end