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Filype picture Filype · Mar 26, 2012 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

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

Answer

random picture random · Apr 11, 2012

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:

  1. Convert tags to escaped HTML entities:

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

  2. Wrap the description content within a CDATA section:

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

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