From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-11-13T15:26:52+09:00
Subject: Re: why does rss/maker not raise errors?

> > > Francis Hwang wrote:
> >> Well, as far as I know every single version of RSS has at least one
> >> glaring problem: It underspecifies what you're supposed to do if you
> >> want to send XML tags in your <description>. So you end up doing
> >> bloody awful things like actually _escaping_ your XML tags, and if
> >> you write a blog about, say, XML (there are a few, I think), and
> >> you're emitting escaped XML markers in your RSS code, you actually
> >> have to _double-escape_ them to get them to show up in most
> >> aggregators:

RSS 1.0 defines that. rdf:parseType='xmlliteral', or enclose in CDATA
or escaped entities. The first is preferred if the content is XML as
well.