# RSS feeds almost done
Some more work this afternoon, and RSS feed generation almost done. I've been using XOM for XML readin' and writin' because it's, well, simple. One of the things it does is virtuously and transparently handle escaping of characters in text elements. The way my current blog handles comment fields with inline HTML, is to wrap everything in a CDATA secion. That's a rather naughty kludge, and dissed rather soundly by XOM's author, Elliotte Rusty Harold in this mailing list thread.
In spite of it being bad and wrong, I remain attached to the kludgey solution, least of all because I'm not sure what it all means for quick and dirty inling of HTML and keeping it distinct from inlined escaped characters meant to represent HTML in the content itself. I suppose there are vays and means which require fancier DTDs and the like, but if CDATA is wrong, baby, I don't know if I wanna be right. So to speak.
In spite of it being bad and wrong, I remain attached to the kludgey solution, least of all because I'm not sure what it all means for quick and dirty inling of HTML and keeping it distinct from inlined escaped characters meant to represent HTML in the content itself. I suppose there are vays and means which require fancier DTDs and the like, but if CDATA is wrong, baby, I don't know if I wanna be right. So to speak.
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