RSS specification HTML code inside RSS feed

Question

Is HTML code inside the tag compliant in RSS 2.0?

Answer 1

The RSS 2.0 specification says that you can include HTML in the description element so long as you properly encode the markup.

You have two ways to do this:

1. Convert tags to escaped HTML entities:

   this is <b>bold</b>
   

2. Wrap the description content within a CDATA section:

   bold]]>