On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:10:42 -0600, Wallace Winfrey wrote:
> We've got a box that pulls in, formats and displays RSS feeds.
> 
> I've tried placing this box directly in the story as well as putting it
> in a block and putting the block in the story, but either way, it
> appears that the code is simply displayed literally rather than interpreted.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or is this not possible?

It's possible but not in the way you're going about it.

For security reasons, pipes (which Scoop uses to delimit its 
interpolation keys) are not permitted in stories or comments. Not even 
for superusers. This isn't a permissions issue, this is how Scoop is 
built at its core. 

There is, however, the macro system. Take a look at the admin guide for 
all the details, but basically you set up a macro, say ((RSS)), that 
when typed into a story would be replaced with the box you want.

One application that I have seen in use is as a safe way to allow the 
image tag: ((image filename)) would, when correctly configured, be 
replaced by the image tag referencing the named file in the user's file 
uploads directory. This restricts images to those the user has uploaded 
to their space, rather than letting them post anything hosted anywhere.

-janra