[ciapug] RSS - Text formating in <description> tag?

[Claus]

Good great info.  Thanks.
The question remains if RSS Feed Readers / Aggregators do interpret 
these HTML tags.

On 10/11/2004 11:28 AM, Jerry Weida wrote:
> You can use formatting if you encapsulate everything in there with a CDATA tag.
> e.g.  
> <description><![CDATA[Here is where you would put your formatted
> information!]]></description>
> 
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:23:04 -0500, Claus <cniesen@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>>Hello
>>
>>Currently I'm playing around with RSS (version 2.0) and try to create
>>some content.  With the item I use the <title>, <link> and <description>
>>tags.  I was wondering if any formating of the text inside of the
>><description> tag exists.  I haven't found any discussion about it and
>>the specifications don't mention anything about it either
>>(http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#roadmap).
>>
>>My guess no formating is allowed, but if it where I'd be interested in
>>carrage returns (<br> or <p></p>) and bold (<b></b>).  While RSS
>>validators (http://rss.scripting.com/ and
>>http://feeds.archive.org/validator/) don't like the <p> and <b> tags the
>>SharpReader handles it as desired.
>>
>>  Claus
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