diff --git a/xsl/podcast.xsl b/xsl/podcast.xsl
index 92d86a93f..d07db5033 100644
--- a/xsl/podcast.xsl
+++ b/xsl/podcast.xsl
@@ -238,7 +238,11 @@
       </pubDate>
 
       <description>
-	<xsl:value-of select="string(document($newsfile))"/>
+	<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;![CDATA[</xsl:text>
+	<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+	  <xsl:apply-templates select="document($newsfile)/item/*[name() != 'resource']"/>
+	</div>
+	<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]&gt;</xsl:text>
       </description>
       <content:encoded>
 	<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;![CDATA[</xsl:text>
diff --git a/xsl/rss.xsl b/xsl/rss.xsl
index 34193bb77..3513d7333 100644
--- a/xsl/rss.xsl
+++ b/xsl/rss.xsl
@@ -53,7 +53,11 @@
 
       <title><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></title>
       <description>
-	<xsl:value-of select="string(.)"/>
+	<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;![CDATA[</xsl:text>
+	<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+	  <xsl:apply-templates select="document($newsfile)/item/*[name() != 'resource']"/>
+	</div>
+	<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]&gt;</xsl:text>
       </description>
       <content:encoded>
 	<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;![CDATA[</xsl:text>