Processing of newlines and HTML in description member

The spec isn't explicit about what formatting the description can contain.

The assumption is probably that it's plain text, but it may be worth being  
very explicit about it (e.g. that LF is a visible line break and HTML tags  
and entities have no special meaning and are to be displayed literally).

In RSS 2.0 this hasn't been clearly specified and titles and descriptions  
ended up being an ugly hybrid of plaintext and HTML that requires  
consumers to "sanitize" those strings and sometimes results in malformed  
content.

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regards, Kornel

Received on Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:41:38 UTC