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Re: CDATA the title and description?

> > Clinton Gallagher wrote:
> > So it seems to be a general consensus that CDATA within
> > the title and the description is widely supported at this
> > point in time...

> Jon's 1st reply:
> Personally, I tend to find it just as handy to escape & and <
> to &amp; and &lt; (and > to &gt; though in most cases that
> should be safe ...

Well Jon, I was thinking of using Regular Expressions to escape
the characters but a couple of test cases with the latest IE,
FF and OP browsers showed they do not parse the entities back
to their respective text characters. What a dilemma!

At the moment I'm considering doing nothing in the Title, using
CDATA in the Description and disallow XML in all other elements.





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So it seems to be a general consensus that CDATA within the title and the description is widely supported at this point in time as a means to allow users to...
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... This may be useful for you: http://www.therssweblog.com/?guid=20070522124846 Regards, Alan Dean http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean...
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... It's pretty depressing that "widely supported" can even be talked about in this case. It's 9 years since XML became a recommendation. There are kids out...
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... Well Jon, I was thinking of using Regular Expressions to escape the characters but a couple of test cases with the latest IE, FF and OP browsers showed...
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