RSS Node doesn't work when feed has HTML in the description

[karllhughes]

Describe the bug
I created an RSS node that reads the CircleCI blog RSS feed.

It fails with the following error:

ERROR: Attribute without value Line: 139 Column: 147 Char: >
Error: Attribute without value
Line: 139
Column: 147
Char: >
    at error (/var/www/html/node_modules/sax/lib/sax.js:651:10)
    at strictFail (/var/www/html/node_modules/sax/lib/sax.js:677:7)
    at SAXParser.write (/var/www/html/node_modules/sax/lib/sax.js:1321:13)
    at Parser.exports.Parser.Parser.parseString (/var/www/html/node_modules/xml2js/lib/parser.js:323:31)
    at Parser.parseString (/var/www/html/node_modules/xml2js/lib/parser.js:5:59)
    at /var/www/html/node_modules/rss-parser/lib/parser.js:33:22
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at Parser.parseString (/var/www/html/node_modules/rss-parser/lib/parser.js:32:16)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/var/www/html/node_modules/rss-parser/lib/parser.js:96:23)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:327:22)

I've been parsing a number of feeds successfully, but this one is the first one with HTML elements in the description of the field, so my feeling is that might be the issue.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a new RSS node in n8n
2. Enter this feed: https://circleci.com/blog/feed.xml
3. Click "Execute node"
4. The error will show you that the feed parsing failed (see above)

Expected behavior
HTML in a feed is pretty typical, so I would expect this to parse.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu Linux 18.04
• n8n Version 0.90.0
• Node.js Version 12

[janober]

I just tested and it works fine for me.

Expect that the error message is correct and that the XML was maybe not valid at the time you did test and that is why it did error.

[karllhughes]

Ok, will test more and see if I can reproduce it. Thanks!

[janober]

Yes, thanks. That would be great.