Re: [syndication] Quickie: HTML in RSS?

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

[ Ah, if only this was a quickie! ]


I agree - namespaces are the most sensible, clean and extensible way
to do this. They should be the default and reccommended method.



On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:10:00PM +0000, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> må 06 aug 2001 21:48:58, Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>:
> 
> > Should HTML in RSS *always* be encoded to its entity? (&lt;,
> > etc.)? 
> 
> IMO, it should *never* be encoded this way. I see it as abuse of 
> the SGML/XML[1] language(s). The best solution would be to use 
> namespaces[2].
> 
> > Or, is it only recommended?
> 
> [1] Yes, I know <URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-
> dev/files/Modules/Standard/mod_content.html > says it's OK to do 
> this.
> 
> [2] This isn't possible in the current version of RSS 1.0, as 
> 'description' can only contain PCDATA.
> 
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> Karl Ove Hufthammer
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