Article:		Escaped Markup Considered Harmful
Subject:		What then?
Date:		2003-08-21 13:01:10
From:		John Vance
Can someone please give me a pointer on *how* to embed html-elements in RSS otherwise? A subset of tags (, , , <span>,...) should be at least supported. Also most sites use HTML 4 and don't want to switch to XHTML so they don't loose support for older browsers. "<br/>" is not acceptable in these environments. (For example "Server-on-desktop" News Aggregators, which have to incorporate news supplied via RSS in a desktop-served HTML4 website). So embedding mark-up by having 2 levels, a "surface structure" (RSS) and a "deep structure" (HTML4 embedded), is the only way to solve these problems? Any ideas out there?

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