Re: HTMLEntities as NUMERIC for XML

> I came across a similar problem using an AJAX thing, with MSWord > characters in the text. The way round the problem was to enclose > everything inside CDATA blocks, which made the browsers happy to > receive as the entities only had to be understood by the HTML browser > now, not the XML parser. As RSS is an XML format, maybe this would help > you? I suspect not. The RSS+XML standard[1] seems to be quite finicky, and wrapping in CDATA block, from what I've read, will simply make some readers/aggregators decide to not carry the RSS feed at all. I have no idea if "some" means "a handful" or "most" however. But trying to maximize audience, I'm being conservative and using KISS principle until I know more. [1] Actually, it's 9 different incompatible standards, with no two published RSS standards being compatible: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss I personally found this blog post "brilliant" YMMV