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Just out of curiosity, I looked at the HN RSS feed and they still use regular escape for titles (and some other things, except description). It means they use 2
by senfiaj 5mo ago
Just out of curiosity, I looked at the HN RSS feed and they still use regular escape for titles (and some other things, except description). It means they use 2 versions of escape instead of 1. So why not just use 1?
- kijin 5mo agoDifferent requirements. The description contains HTML markup, such as <p></p> for paragraph breaks. CDATA is a nice and clean way to encode them without breaking anything. The title doesn't contain any markup, and shouldn't. A good old escape function covers both the "doesn't" part and the "shouldn't" part.
- senfiaj 5mo agoWhat requirments are you talking about? Human readability? IMHO, RSS is for feed readers, not humans. When looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss , the RSS isn't that human friendly at all, all line breaks are removed. The point is the simplicity and uniformity, regular escape works well for many cases, not just description.