Reply To: Feeds give only summary when I want full-text

Thanks esmi, that’s useful!

So why is every feed reader I’ve tried drawing on what’s in the <description> tag rather than the actual content? Here’s the output of one post:

<item>
		<title>Harvey Mansfield on the humanities</title>
		<link>http://www.jasonswadley.com/2011/05/harvey-mansfield-on-the-humanities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harvey-mansfield-on-the-humanities</link>
		<comments>http://www.jasonswadley.com/2011/05/harvey-mansfield-on-the-humanities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 02:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jason swadley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> 

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jasonswadley.com/?p=644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Harvey Mansfield on the humanities: “It is the job of the humanities to make non-science into something positive that could be called human in the best sense.”]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0517hm.html">Harvey Mansfield on the humanities</a>: “It is the job of the humanities to make non-science into something positive that could be called human in the best sense.”</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jasonswadley.com/2011/05/harvey-mansfield-on-the-humanities/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>