Question

I’m trying to make a webcomic RSS feed with Django, but I can’t put an image in the description field, because the html code gets escaped, even if it’s in an {% autoescape off %} block.

Here is my description template:

{% autoescape off %}
<img src="{{obj.img.url}}"/>
{% endautoescape %}

And this is the result:

<img src="http://localhost:8000/media/comics/001__.png"/>

How can I avoid this autoescaping?

Answer 1

How can I avoid this autoescaping?

Actually, you need to keep this auto-escaping… Look carefully at any other rss feeds: xkcd.com/rss.xml

Quote from spec by the RSS Advisory Board:

A channel may contain any number of
items. An item may represent a
“story” — much like a story in a
newspaper or magazine; if so its
description is a synopsis of the
story, and the link points to the full
story. An item may also be complete in
itself, if so, the description
contains the text (entity-encoded HTML
is allowed; see examples), and the
link and title may be omitted. All
elements of an item are optional,
however at least one of title or
description must be present.

http://www.rssboard.org/rss-encoding-examples