Rss20FeedFormatter Ignores TextSyndicationContent type for SyndicationItem.Summary

Question

While using the Rss20FeedFormatter class in a WCF project, I was trying to wrap the content of my description elements with a section. I found t

Answer 1

I found the code for Cdata elsewhere

    public class CDataSyndicationContent : TextSyndicationContent
{
    public CDataSyndicationContent(TextSyndicationContent content)
        : base(content)
    {
    }

    protected override void WriteContentsTo(System.Xml.XmlWriter writer)
    {
        writer.WriteCData(Text);
    }
}

Code to call it something along the lines:

item.Content = new Helpers.CDataSyndicationContent(new TextSyndicationContent("TEST2", TextSyndicationContentKind.Html));

However the "WriteContentsTo" function wasn't being called.

Instead of Rss20FeedFormatter I tried Atom10FeedFormatter - and it worked! Obviously this gives Atom feed rather than traditional RSS - but worth mentioning.

Output code is:

//var formatter = new Rss20FeedFormatter(feed);
    Atom10FeedFormatter formatter = new Atom10FeedFormatter(feed);
    using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(response.Output, new XmlWriterSettings { Indent = true }))
    {
        formatter.WriteTo(writer);
    }