Man, RSS is a COW! (Can Of Worms) mad

I went searching for an RSS reader for Windows, and I downloaded a trial version of FeedDemon from www.newsgator.com. I tried out their RSS reader on my board, and got the same results.

So I posted a query there (Breaks between paragraphs?) asking about paragraph breaks on their message board. Then I clicked the RSS button on that board, amazingly the paragraphs show up with breaks! Then I used my IE7 browser's view source, and I believe I can see what is going on. On THAT board, they include HTML tags for paragraph breaks using &lt; and &gt; to enclose the HTML <br> end-of-line tags. And the IE browser interprets those correctly, so I get a nicely formatted view of my message.

So.... is it premature to ask that Threads include some sort of option to produce a similar XML output?