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man, I really hate posting then finding out my answer two seconds later. I had an error in my code (see the style in the first li tag). Once I removed “list”, it worked just fine:-)

Someone explained to me what is happening on a different forum. Since
during all of my research, I didn’t see a single article/post
explaining concept and the fact that I absolutely despise finding
unanswered threads myself, let me attempt to explain for anyone
reading this thread in the future in hopes of finding an answer:

If you look at the source code for an RSS 2.0 feed, you’ll see under
each entry (in the feed, it is referenced as an <item> element) there
are two separate sets of elements:

<description>XXXX </description>
<content:encoded>XXXX </content:encoded>

The first element, <description>, contains an excerpt of your entry.
The second element, <content:encoded> is the raw HTML from the
original source.

When you view an RSS 2.0 feed in a browser, just remember, certain browsers use certain elements, eg. IE uses content:encoded,
Firefox uses <description>, Safari uses <content:encoded>, Chrome…
well…

Seriously, it’s really that simple and I’m stunned that there are SOOO
many unanswered or poorly answered threads throughout the Internet on
this topic.

In my case, I simply needed to specify which element to use in my XSLT
stylesheet.

Hopefully this helps some people searching for answers.

okay. it looks like it does have something to do with my code that I used to pull the feed. I’ll have to investigate this a bit more…

After going through many posts here (and still looking), I see that most of the time, the issue is to make sure the “Full Text” option is selected in Reading Settings. I can assure you that this is selected and I also have my Feedburner FeedSmith plugin deactivated to be sure that the category feed isn’t being redirected.

There must be something that I can do in the XSLT stylesheet or maybe the ASPX page that I’m writing, because if I try accomplishing the same thing using BuzzBoost, the full feed shows up just fine…

I hate to bump threads, but does anyone have some feedback on this question?

thanks!

did you ever find an answer for this question? I’m wondering the same thing but I can’t seem to find an answer anywhere:(