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I am using Django's RSS capabilities to build an RSS feed. The <description> of the RSS feed items contains HTML markup. Currently, I am just injecting the HTML markup into the feed using the following template: {{ obj.post }} Django, of course, translates special characters ( < , > , & , etc.) to their respective HTML entities. I know I could just output the HTML and wrap all the HTML code in <![CDATA[...]]> sections. This page says that either method is acceptable. If that's true, is there a good reason to pick one method over the other? And if I use example #2, is there a filter for Django

When I come across a broken RSS feed, the usual reason its all blown to pieces is because line 23 says "Sanford & Sons." The most confusing thing is the fact that if you convert the & into & , all is well, even though your alternative still contains the problem character. Why does RSS fail at rendering the ampersand ( & ) character by default? Mitch Wheat When a 'raw' & is seen, the interpreter is looking for one of the valid escaped & sequences (such as '&' ). When an invalid sequence is found it throws an error. That's all there is to it. Because rss is an XML-based format and in xml the

I need to be able to read xml/rss from a https web site in a console program. until now my program supports plain http, and i've been searching around but i cant seem to find an easy way to implement support for https. It would not matter if the site has a valid certificate or not, but i would appriciate to get hints towards how i would check these certificates to. I might not know too much about this so any hints are appriciated! what i currently do for http is: XmlTextReader rssReader; XmlDocument rssDoc; rssReader = new XmlTextReader(url); rssDoc = new XmlDocument(); rssDoc.Load(rssReader);

Just wondering if someone could suggest a PHP library that would allow me to read the data of an RSS feed and write it to a MySQL database. Also, if possible, provide a link to documentation about how to do this? Thanks RSS is a pretty simple format - there is no great need to use a separate library. I'd just use simplexml , because I don't wanna spend the effort learning another library, and keeping up with its development. Here is a simple PHP script for showing the latest Stackoverflor posts with simplexml: <?php $rss = simplexml_load_file('http://stackoverflow.com/feeds'); ?> <h1><?php