From a9c8d7772a4421eaee63a806fd947fb39743745e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Carstairs <jcarstairs@scottlogic.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 17:03:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] RSS feeds have better links and render HTML in markdown
 content

---
 website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts  |  7 +++++--
 website/src/pages/links/rss.xml.ts | 12 +++++++++---
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts b/website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts
index b7c9bf3..ae81209 100644
--- a/website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts
+++ b/website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
+import path from 'node:path';
 import rss from '@astrojs/rss';
 import type { APIContext } from 'astro';
 import { getCollection } from 'astro:content';
 import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it';
 
-const mdParser = new MarkdownIt();
+const mdParser = new MarkdownIt({
+	html: true
+});
 
 export async function GET(context: APIContext) {
 	// `site` is guaranteed to exist because we define it in our Astro config
@@ -17,7 +20,7 @@ export async function GET(context: APIContext) {
 			<image>/images/headshot.webp</image>
 		  <language>en-GB</language>
 		`,
-		site,
+		site: path.join(site.toString(), 'blog'),
 		trailingSlash: false,
 		items: posts.map((post) => ({
 		  link: post.slug,
diff --git a/website/src/pages/links/rss.xml.ts b/website/src/pages/links/rss.xml.ts
index 009588a..3f9e9a0 100644
--- a/website/src/pages/links/rss.xml.ts
+++ b/website/src/pages/links/rss.xml.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
+import path from 'node:path';
 import rss from '@astrojs/rss';
 import type { APIContext } from 'astro';
 import LINKS from '../../data/links.ts';
+import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it';
+
+const mdParser = new MarkdownIt({
+	html: true
+});
 
 export async function GET(context: APIContext) {
 	// `site` is guaranteed to exist because we define it in our Astro config
@@ -13,14 +19,14 @@ export async function GET(context: APIContext) {
 			<image>/images/headshot.webp</image>
 		  <language>en-GB</language>
 		`,
-		site,
+		site: path.join(site.toString(), 'links'),
 		trailingSlash: false,
 		items: LINKS.map((link) => ({
 		  link: link.href,
 			title: link.title,
-	    content: link.description,
+	    content: mdParser.render(link.description),
 	    pubDate: new Date(link.isoDateAdded),
-	    description: link.description,
+	    description: mdParser.render(link.description),
 	    author: 'Joe Carstairs',
 		})),
 	})