RSS specification HTML code inside RSS feed

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Is HTML code inside the <description> tag compliant in RSS 2.0?

random · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-11 04:23:28Z

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The RSS 2.0 specification says that you can include HTML in the description element so long as you properly encode the markup.

You have two ways to do this:

Convert tags to escaped HTML entities:

<description>this is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;</description>

Wrap the description content within a CDATA section:

<description><![CDATA[this is <b>bold</b>]]></description>

answered Apr 11, 2012 at 4:23

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Nguyễn Hoàng Gia · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-11 04:27:24Z

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You can decode < and > char to html code

< : <

> : >

answered Apr 11, 2012 at 4:27

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You also need to change the ampersand (&) character.

And to be safe, the " and ' characters too, in addition to &, < and >.

This is the complete list (5 predefined entities): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…