SyndicationFeed: Content as CDATA?

Question

I\'m using .NET\'s SyndicationFeed to create RSS and ATOM feeds. Unfortunately, I need HTML content in the description element (the Content property of the SyndicationItem)

Answer 1

I had the same problem as some where the WriteContentsTo override wasn't being called in cpowers example (still no idea why). So, I changed it to inherit from the SyndicationContent class instead. Not sure if this is the best solution, but worked great in my situation.

public class CDataSyndicationContent : SyndicationContent
{
    public CDataSyndicationContent(string content)
    {
        Text = content;
    }

    public override SyndicationContent Clone()
    {
        return new CDataSyndicationContent(Text);
    }

    public override string Type
    {
        get { return "html"; }
    }

    public string Text { get; private set; }

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

Answer 2

try this

XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
            settings.IgnoreComments = false;
            //settings.ProhibitDtd = false;
            using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(rssurl, settings))

Answer 3

try

item.Content = "<![CDATA[" + 
            SyndicationContent.CreateHtmlContent("<b>Item Content</b>") + "]]>";