diff --git a/modules/node.module b/modules/node.module
index 587c9466273..1d5709a57ce 100644
--- a/modules/node.module
+++ b/modules/node.module
@@ -751,7 +751,8 @@ function node_feed($nodes = 0, $channel = array()) {
   }
 
   $output .= "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ". t("encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\""). "?>\n";
-  // $output .= "<!DOCTYPE rss [<!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC \"-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent\">\n";
+  $output .= "<!DOCTYPE rss [<!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC \"-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent\">\n";
+    // NOTE: &eacute; - for example - is the correct ISO-8859-1 translation of é (e acute) but apparently XML parsers don't (have to) understand it.  To solve this problem, we use a DTD that defines commonly used entity such as &eacute;.
   if (!$channel["version"]) $channel["version"] = "0.91";
   if (!$channel["title"]) $channel["title"] = variable_get("site_name", "drupal") ." - ". variable_get("site_slogan", "");
   if (!$channel["link"]) $channel["link"] = path_uri();
diff --git a/modules/node/node.module b/modules/node/node.module
index 587c9466273..1d5709a57ce 100644
--- a/modules/node/node.module
+++ b/modules/node/node.module
@@ -751,7 +751,8 @@ function node_feed($nodes = 0, $channel = array()) {
   }
 
   $output .= "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ". t("encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\""). "?>\n";
-  // $output .= "<!DOCTYPE rss [<!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC \"-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent\">\n";
+  $output .= "<!DOCTYPE rss [<!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC \"-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent\">\n";
+    // NOTE: &eacute; - for example - is the correct ISO-8859-1 translation of é (e acute) but apparently XML parsers don't (have to) understand it.  To solve this problem, we use a DTD that defines commonly used entity such as &eacute;.
   if (!$channel["version"]) $channel["version"] = "0.91";
   if (!$channel["title"]) $channel["title"] = variable_get("site_name", "drupal") ." - ". variable_get("site_slogan", "");
   if (!$channel["link"]) $channel["link"] = path_uri();