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I want to format the content of the description using html tags. When I try to enclose the content in <![CDATA[content<p>here]]> it doesn’t work properly, as it escapes some of the brackets, displaying O.K. in some RSS viewers, but displaying the ]]> in others.
If I try to avoid the CDATA and use escaped characters throughout, this mostly works, but $lt;p$gt; gets displayed as <p> rather than a new code.
Any thoughts?
I looked into my problem some more and the problem is that PyRSS2Gen uses python’s sax library, which has no concept of CDATA, at least when writing out XML. My solution was just to drop PyRSS2Gen and directly use minidom, which does understand CDATA sections. That did mean some extra lines of code.
Once the html text inside my description tag was properly enclosed in a CDATA section, the raw xml looked fine and it also displayed the way I wanted it in 3 RSS readers I tried.