An RSS feed, like revenge, is best served raw, very raw! (Or is that "cold?") Anyway, some times you want to look at the raw XML of a Community Server feed, particularly if you're encountering some sort of error and some goofy newsreader is going "baa! baa!" for no apparent reason.
Here's how to view the straight XML. First display your feed in the browser, a view with which we're all familiar as shown below.
Now for the secret step. Do a VIEW SOURCE in your browser. The source contains the full post content (or excerpts if that's your dish), while the web page displayed with /utility/feedstylesheets/rss.xsl does not. Now SAVE THE SOURCE FILE as an xml file. Open the saved source.xml file in a text editor (or visual studio shown below) and REMOVE THE STYLE SHEET ELEMENT.
Save it and open in your browser. If there are any XML errors they will be quickly apparent. Or even if you're not looking for XML errors, it's still a pretty sight.
