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RSS 2.0 Best Practice Tip: Entity-encoded HTML in Descriptions

Tuesday, August 26th, 2003
by Lockergnome

RSS 2.0 is an incredibly useful and widely adopted standard. Unfortunately, the RSS 2.0 Specification is significantly underspecified in a number of areas. One such area is the form and meaning of the <description> element.

The specification is unclear or ambiguous in several ways. Three Technical Recommendations address specific ambiguities and are designed to avoid-or at least minimize-interoperability problems related to the use of non-ASCII characters in RSS description properties.

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