RSS Profile Draft 1.22 Published

The RSS Profile draft has been updated to reflect current testing of
plain text encoding for item titles.

Changes

1. The Conventions section includes an updated paragraph listing the
10 RSS aggregators used for all tests.

http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#conventions

"This profile relies primarily on tests conducted with the aggregators
Bloglines, BottomFeeder 4.4, FeedDemon 2.5 (2.5.0.10), Google Reader,
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 (2.0.9), My Yahoo,
NewsGator Online and Opera 9 (9.22)."

2. The Character Data section includes an updated paragraph reporting
the test results.

http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#data-types-characterdata

"This form of encoding was presented successfully for all seven of the
preceding examples in Apple Safari, Bloglines, Mozilla Firefox and
Internet Explorer, six-of-seven in Opera and five-of-seven in
FeedDemon and Google Reader. It failed three or more tests in
BottomFeeder, My Yahoo and NewsGator Online."

The recommendation does not change -- it states to use hexadecimal
references for <, > and & in all character data elements that contain
plain text.

Detailed Test Results

Tested: Bloglines, Google Reader, My Yahoo, NewsGator Online, Apple
Safari 2.0 (2.0.4), BottomFeeder 4.4, FeedDemon 2.5 (2.5.0.10),
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 (2.0.9), and Opera
9 (9.22)

Character data plain text encoding tests
http://www.rssboard.org/files/rss-test-1.xml

Test 1: <title>AT&#x26;T</title>
Desired Title: AT&T

Test 2: <title>Bill &#x26; Ted's Excellent Adventure</title>
Desired Title: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Test 3: <title>The &#x26;amp; entity</title>
Desired Title: The &amp; entity

Test 4: <title>I &#x3C;3 Phil Ringnalda</title>
Desired Title: I <3 Phil Ringnalda

Test 5: <title>A &#x3C; B</title>
Desired Title: A < B

Test 6: <title>A&#x3C;B</title>
Desired Title: A<B

Test 7: <title>Nice &#x3C;gorilla&#x3E; what's he weigh?</title>
Desired Title: Nice <gorilla> what's he weigh?

Passed all 7 tests: Apple Safari, Bloglines, Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
Failed 1 test: Opera (test 3)
Failed 2 tests: Google Reader (tests 3, 7), FeedDemon (also 3, 7)
Failed 3 tests: My Yahoo (tests 3, 6, 7)
Failed 5 tests: NewsGator Online (failed 3-7)
Failed 7 tests: BottomFeeder




 
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