Bug 41988

Summary: OPAC: News RSS links with HTML not working
Product: Koha Reporter: Hammat wele <hammat.wele>
Component: OPACAssignee: Hammat wele <hammat.wele>
Status: Signed Off --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: caroline.cyr-la-rose, philippe.blouin
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Attachments: Bug 41988: OPAC News RSS links with HTML not working
Bug 41988: OPAC News RSS links with HTML not working
Bug 41988: OPAC News RSS links with HTML not working

Description Hammat wele 2026-03-04 02:41:00 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 1 Hammat wele 2026-03-04 02:55:51 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 2 Hammat wele 2026-03-04 14:24:14 UTC
Created attachment 194453 [details] [review]
Bug 41988: OPAC News RSS links with HTML not working

    The news RSS link on the OPAC appears to be invalid when the news content contains HTML. Users cannot subscribe to the feed using standard RSS readers or email clients.

    To reproduce:

    1- Go to Tools -> HTML customizations -> News
    2- Click New Entry with the following settings:
        2-1- Display location: OPAC
        2-2- Publication date: today
        2-3- Title: "News test"
        2-4- Content: click on <> and paste some HTML code, for example:
        <span style="color: #ba372a; font-size: 12pt;">Le Pr&ecirc;t entre biblioth&egrave;ques est mis en pause. D&eacute;sol&eacute;s de l'inconv&eacute;nients.<br />Merci de votre compr&eacute;hension.</span>
    3- Save the entry.
    4- Go to the OPAC and copy the "RSS feed for system-wide library news" link.
    5- Execute: curl -v http://opac/cgi-bin/koha/opac-news-rss.pl?branchcode= and copy the XML output to https://validator.w3.org/feed/ to check the feed.
        ==> The feed is not valid.
    6- Try to create a subscription to this link in an email client (e.g., Thunderbird).
        ==> It does not work, giving the error "Feed URL is not valid".
    7- Apply the patch.
    8- Repeat steps 5 and 6.
        ==> The feed is now a valid RSS.
    9- Repeat step 7.
        ==> You can now subscribe to the RSS feed using standard readers and email clients.
Comment 3 Owen Leonard 2026-03-04 19:04:07 UTC
Created attachment 194463 [details] [review]
Bug 41988: OPAC News RSS links with HTML not working

The news RSS link on the OPAC appears to be invalid when the news
content contains HTML. Users cannot subscribe to the feed using
standard RSS readers or email clients.

To reproduce:

1- Go to Tools -> HTML customizations -> News
2- Click New Entry with the following settings:
   2-1- Display location: OPAC
   2-2- Publication date: today
   2-3- Title: "News test"
   2-4- Content: click on <> and paste some HTML code, for example:
        <span style="color: #ba372a; font-size: 12pt;">Le Pr&ecirc;t
        entre biblioth&egrave;ques est mis en pause.
        D&eacute;sol&eacute;s de
        l'inconv&eacute;nients.<br />Merci de votre
        compr&eacute;hension.</span>
3- Save the entry.
4- Go to the OPAC and copy the "RSS feed for system-wide library news"
   link.
5- Execute: curl -v
   http://opac/cgi-bin/koha/opac-news-rss.pl?branchcode= and copy the
   XML output to https://validator.w3.org/feed/ to check the feed.
     ==> The feed is not valid.
6- Try to create a subscription to this link in an email client (e.g.,
   Thunderbird).
     ==> It does not work, giving the error "Feed URL is not valid".
7- Apply the patch.
8- Repeat steps 5 and 6.
     ==> The feed is now a valid RSS.
9- Repeat step 7.
     ==> You can now subscribe to the RSS feed using standard readers
         and email clients.

Signed-off-by: Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org>