Certainly, avoiding markup in type="text" is good advice, but it should be good advice "because your markup will be displayed rather than being interpreted" rather than "because it's the wrong thing to to do." Having misstated my position and put it too strongly, I don't expect to persuade you at this point, but I do still believe that this puts type="text" in exactly the same position as title in RSS: you simply cannot use a less-than character in it with any hope of it being correctly interpreted.
OK. I think this means that we don't disagree as strongly as it first seemed, but that you think I wasn't clear enough in the article itself on the reasons for avoiding embedded markup in type="text". I can accept that. I felt that my discussion and references elsewhere in the article on the subject of escaped markup would make the reasons for my advice reasonably clear, but I was probably too laconic in the text immediately leading up to listing 3. If so, I hope this thread helps tease out the matter sufficiently for readers.
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