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I need to make an RSS feed for a channel. The issue is that the content has been imported and contains inline styles and other markup. Ive looked at the various modules but I can’t get it all removed, and some of it stops my feed from validating.

One work around that seems to work is this:

<![CDATA[ {my_field} ]]>

From what ive read this stops the content from being xml parsed, which is why it validates ok. Ive looked in a few readers and it seems fine, but is their a risk / downside to this method? I don’t really understand the implications so id appreciate any advice or info on tests I could perform.

Thanks

Hi JamesBrighton,

Our default templates using CDATA, so this shouldn’t cause you any problems.

Are there any resources that say what sort of markup is likely to be displayed properly in RSS readers and what you should avoid using? Thanks

Hi, James -

There are probably several, you could start with the W3C site for your research. =)

Actually I cant find much at all. This is the spec but it doesn’t include any formatting to use within content:
http://feed2.w3.org/docs/rss2.html

The validation service lets anything validate if its within CDATA, but that doesn’t mean its ‘good’ code:
http://validator.w3.org/feed/

Hi, James -

I’m just not that intricately familiar with RSS.  I’m going to shift this down to Community Help in case others have some input on that.