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

[Jerry Weida]

In my opinion, they do interpret these just fine.


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:05:01 -0500, Claus <cniesen@gmx.net> wrote:
> 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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