* Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-04 16:07]: > Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-04 13:19]: >>> AIUI, the description tag is not supposed to contain ordinary HTML markup >>> in RSS 1.0. >> >> Thats why they are escaped and put in there as entities. > > But then, you are simply hoping for something to interpret this mess. > If an aggregator does not, the resulting description text does simply > look ugly and is hard to read.
Have you taken a link at *any* of the feeds that are used on <http://planet.debian.net/>? They do *all* include escaped HTML tags in them. And I think it is a good thing. >> No, please not. From what I understand it HTML is allowed in there if >> it is encoded as entities. > > I continue quoting from the same page: > > " If you need to include a a tag in the text of the feed (e.g., > the title of an item is "Ode to <title>"), make sure you escape > ampersands and angle brackets (so that it would be "Ode to > <title>")." And this isn't done. Those tags _are_ escaped, thank you. > However, this is not saying "Use ordinary html markup to identify links > and paragraphs". And it doesn't say the contrary, like you insist. > The problem is that some aggregators might be able to parse escaped HTML > markup, but it is simply not specified in the RSS standard, and so, > aggregators > are not required too. Maybe another plaintext feed helps, then. But I am still not convinced that this is something that rss wasn't meant to offer, sorry. > Of course I do, because of above mentioned reasons. It should continue > to escape < and > and the-like, however, we should strip out anchor > and paragraph start/end tags. I dislike this change, but I'm not the only one who must be convinced. I guess you can still try to convince someone else -- but then again, refrain from changing the current dsa-long but add a dsa-txt or similar feed for your preference. > I disagree. Fine, and I disagree with the helpfullness of your patch. Alfie -- <thuglife> ok dont blame me i am a bitch :)) -- #debian-devel
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