What requirments are you talking about? Human readability? IMHO, RSS is for feed readers, not humans. When looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://n

What 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.