RSS specification HTML code inside RSS feed

Question

Is HTML code inside the <description> tag compliant in RSS 2.0?

Answer 1

The RSS 2.0 specification says that you can include HTML in the description element so long as you properly encode the markup.

You have two ways to do this:

1. Convert tags to escaped HTML entities:

   <description>this is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;</description> 

2. Wrap the description content within a CDATA section:

   <description><![CDATA[this is <b>bold</b>]]></description> 

Answer 2

You can decode < and > char to html code

< : <

> : >