Feed Aggregator problem

Thank you for the link. I did actually spend a good bit of time searching the forums and documentation seeking a resolution to this problem, but I did not find this post until you pointed it out.

I tried the "workaround" suggested in the post at http://drupal.org/node/311511:
"in function aggregator_save_item($edit) {...}
in aggregator.module for the title of the feed item. Just replace $edit['title'] with strip_tags($edit['title']) then remove all items and updates items."

As per the post I replaced the occurrences of $edit['title'] with strip_tags($edit['title']) at lines 831 and 838.

Unfortunately this does not appear to correct my problem. I also tried replacing $edit['description'] with strip_tags($edit['description']), but this did not do the trick either.

I am currently attempting to write my own function to strip out the code from the teaser... Unless anyone else has a better suggestion.

Here is the function I created to deal with this problem. I simply added these lines at the end of aggregator.module:

# function to find escape strings, < and > delete these & the code encompassed within
function clean_tags($code) {
$code = preg_replace('/<(.*?)>/', " ", $code);
$code = preg_replace('/\r/', '', $code);
$code = preg_replace('/\t/', '', $code);
$code = preg_replace('/\s\s+/', ' ', $code);
return $code;
}

I inserted a call to this function on line 703 of aggregator.module with this code:
$data = clean_tags($data);

Now the teaser (or description as it is referred to in the code) displays perfectly.

The preg_replace for the \r, \t, and \s are just to clean up the code a bit before feeding it into the xml parser but are not essential to fixing the garbage output problem.

I hope this will help anyone else who might run into this same problem.