Re: Encoded HTML within <description> or <content>

Joseph Walton <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:13:03 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.network.syndication.rss.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:06:39PM -0400, Etienne Robillard wrote:
> > Is this still valid in a DESCRIPTION element (or
> > anywhere else for that matter)?
> You can achieve the same effect if you use namespaces:
> 
> <rss:description>
>   <html:b>Big Bolded Text</html:b>
> </rss:description>

Non-escaped elements aren't allowed in an RSS description element.

However, a valid extension is to use:

<item>
...
<body xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<p><b>Big Bolded Text</b></p>
</:body>
...
</item>

rather than a description. (Atom includes support for this technique.)
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