Rss and description element

[Ily]

Is it okay to have html in the Rss (realy simple sindication) file?

Reason being that I am generating the rss file based upon input from
user which contains html formatting (its checked to make sure its xml
compliant)

Many thanks

 

[Guest]

As a general rule with any XML document, if you have markup that may contain
illegal characters the best thing to do is enclose it in a CDATA section.
This applies to RSS, which is just an XML "variant" as well as any other type
of XML.
Otherwise, you may have to replace offending characters with their entity
references (e.g. ' with ' .etc)
Peter