[Blogcfc-develop] OT: Storing HTML

[Ben F. <bf...@ma...>]

Hey all,

I need a quick reality check here ... do you store complete HTML (with
tags and formatting) in your tblBlogEntries table, or do you store just
text, or do you store embedded tokens which you use to render output
properly? Or something else altogether?

My gut feel is that storing <P> and <FONT> and whatever in the core
record is a bad thing. But what about tag markers, do you store <CFSET>
or &lt;CFSET&gt;?

And what about titles? Embedding &lt; seems to mess up some RSS displays
(but not all).

I have been storing <CFSET> in my content (and use HTMLEditFormat() to
display it properly), that works well but messes up some RSS feeds it
seems. I have not been storing any formatting at all, so to crate links
I save the URL and have a UDF that turns it into a link at presentation
time. That works for links but not, for example, for embedding a code
snippet.

Anyone have any strong feelings on this one?

--- Ben

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