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Encoding & item-level descriptions
Thursday, June 3, 2004
These are examples of
item-level descriptions, illustrating how encoding works with and without the use of
CDATA (a feature of XML 1.0).
Each example consists of two lines, the first is an example description element, the second line is what the reader will see when viewing the description in a RSS 2.0-compatible aggregator.
The examples were provided by
Nick Bradbury of Bradbury Software.
Example 1: Encoding HTML Tags
<description>this is <b>bold</b></description>
this is
bold
Example 2: Encoding HTML within a CDATA Section
<description><![CDATA[this is <b>bold</b>]]></description>
this is
bold
Example 3: Encoding angle brackets in text
<description>5 &lt; 8, ticker symbol &lt;BIGCO&gt;</description>
5 < 8, ticker symbol <BIGCO>
Example 4: Encoding angle brackets in text within a CDATA section
<description><![CDATA[5 < 8, ticker symbol <BIGCO>]]></description>
5 < 8, ticker symbol <BIGCO>
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