Re: [syndication] Bad entities

[Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com>]

Julian Bond writes:
> >  XML RSS: Gonzáles
> 
> Funnily enough the O'Reilly Meerkat feeds are currently doing this. And
> I thought it was a bug! Maybe it's deliberate? They seem to be doing it
> on all their own internally generated feeds and in all xml formats, RSS
> 1.0 as well.

All the Manila based feeds should as well, if Manila is still encoding
the HTML in the description tag.

> Which would then mean readers double-decoding the result as well.

AmphetaDesk and the Userland products both to do this (ie: decoding it
once, then passing the result to the browser). Because of that, last
time I checked my RDF feed still does this (which would break My
Netscape, but given that anyone using my feed has long since gone to
one of the other readers...).

I agree that a DTD description, or requiring &# style encoding for all
but the sacred 5, is clearer, but practice has gone the other way.

Dan