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About: RSS 2.0 Best Practice Tip: Entity-encoded HTML in Descriptions | MySmartChannels
Recommendation: Descriptions that contain HTML markup SHOULD NOT contain non-ASCII byte values. An RSS author (or generator) can always avoid the use of non-ASCII characters by using character entities instead. For example, in the case of the non-ASCII character 147 decimal mentioned earlier, an RSS descriptions should use the character entity “ instead of the literal byte value. Character entities are always expressible using ASCII characters, thereby avoiding the encoding issues.
Note for RSS Authors: Remember that an HTML entity such as “ or — must be properly escaped according to XML syntax when creating the RSS document. Specifically, the ampersand character in each entity must be escaped: “ and —, respectively.
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Seth says
Read Dave Winer's A Busy Developer's Guide to RSS 2.0 ... he should know, he wrote the "spec".
Read Dave Winer's A Busy Developer's Guide to RSS 2.0 ... he should know, he wrote the "spec".
Seth says
Nick Bradbury?s BDG for RSS
Nick Bradbury?s BDG for RSS
Seth says
source: How to write XHTML
- Any & and < characters, even in scripts or stylesheets, must be replaced by & and < respectively.
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