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rss-title.txt (1411B) |
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1 A note about HTML in titles |
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4 - RSS does not allow HTML in titles. |
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5 - Atom does allow HTML in titles. |
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6 - sfeed does not handle HTML in titles and will show them as plain-text. |
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7 "Atom Processors that display such content MAY use that markup to aid … |
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8 display." |
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11 For RSS: |
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13 HTML is not allowed in titles, it is allowed in descriptions: |
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14 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification |
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16 A news post of the RSS board addressing this question: |
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17 https://www.rssboard.org/news/128/html-titles-and-descriptions |
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19 Maybe the confusion comes from the fact that RSS must have either a titl… |
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20 description. In some clients when there is no title the description is … |
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21 and HTML is allowed in descriptions. |
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24 For Atom: |
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26 In the Atom standard the title is not optional and it may contain HTML: |
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27 4.2.14. The "atom:title" Element |
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28 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4287#section-4.2.14 |
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30 So an atomTextConstruct may have a HTML, XHTML or text type. The default… |
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31 text. |
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32 3.1. Text Constructs |
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33 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4287#section-3.1 |
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36 For sfeed: |
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38 To support HTML in Atom titles this would open a rabbithole, because one… |
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39 have an additional HTML parser that handles HTML, all named entities and… |
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40 handle its quirks. |
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42 A foolproof work-around for broken RSS feed would not be possible since … |
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43 reliable way to tell if the item should have actual HTML or a text. |
