* Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org> [2004-04-04 19:11]:
> I admit I don't use planet.debian.net at all, but the comparison is not
> as striking for me as it appears to be for you. Most feeds I use
> do not use escaped html inside description tags. In fact,
> Debian Security (long) is the first one I encountered that does do that.
All weblogs use escaped html tags in their description. Might be that
you haven't taken a look at any weblog yet, but they all do.
>> And I think it is a good thing.
>
> I'd rather prefer if the goal (which indeed is a good thing) were implemented
> in a correct way. Given that RSS is already XML, and there are ways
> to define RSS extension modules, I simply think there is no need to
> bloat the existing <description> field with possibly unreadable cruft.
You can always take the dsa.XX.rdf link, which doesn't have any
description at all.
> The document I quoted simply tries to emphasis this, and calls on
> people to avoid it, to prevent the mess from growing.
And the document you quoted is in what sense authoritative?
> I don't think that a separate plaintext feed is the correct way to go
> about this.
Well, and I definitely don't want the dsa-long.XX.rdf feed and break it
for those who depend on that form.
So long,
Alfie
--
One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero,
they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
-- Robert Firth
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