RE: [Blogcfc-develop] OT: Storing HTML

[Roger B. <ro...@ag...>]

> 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;?

Ben,

IMO, you want to encode precisely the content that must be encoded, and
nothing more. The RSS problems you've seen are the result of people (and by
"people", I mean self included) encoding HTML in the <description> element
rather than using [CDATA] or stripping markup entirely. Encoding it before
it ever makes it into RSS raises the possibility of double-encoding, which
just makes things even uglier.


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