Re: [syndication] Re: Digest Number 130

[Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
> > CDATA sections are easy to do/enforce in software, but not for
> > hand-authored content.
> 
> Why do you say this? To me they seem a lot like a special type of tag. The
> opening is <[!CDATA[ (or some such) and the closing is ]]> -- this doesn't
> seem to complicated to do (at least to me). It may not be familiar to those
> who use HTML, but that doesn't mean it's very hard to learn.

You are a programmer. Many of the peopld writing RSS are writers, not
programmers, and they will find any new notation/trick difficult. 

 
ian