What is a good strategy to store HTML in MongodDB JSON-style doc

Question

Is it OK to store HTML in MongoDB? Are there disadvantages? Are there better alternatives?

I'm a bit new to JSON, but I'm planning migrate my WordPress site to a custom meteor/mongodb site.

In WordPress our "Posts" are essentially product records, and the "main content" is the product's description. These descriptions contain some HTML markup, such as "strong" tags, break tags, and href hyperlinks.

<p>Who hasn't wished for a mini-Roomba to handle the arduous task of cleaning their iPhone screen? Now your dreams have come true! See the Takara web page for a <a href="http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/automee/" title="automee s" target="_blank">demo video.</a><strong>Colors: </strong> White, Red, Orange and Blue Runs on a single AA battery.<br> 1,575 yen</p> 

Unlike XML, JSON lacks something like CDATA. Is it a bad idea to try and put HTML in my JSON-style doc description field? Are there special escape characters for doing this? Or should I store the HTML product description as a external, static file? Or are there other best practices?

{ '_id':'236', 'name':'Tokyo Marui M9A1 Gas Blow Back Airsoft Gun', 'description':'<p>html here?</p>', 'tags': ['toys','outdoors'] ... } 

Any tip, advice, links appreciated!

EDIT

Sample product description text added.

EDIT2

I found this stackoverflow article: How to store HTML data in MongoDB?

and another on google https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mongodb-user/HW5XB5yox20

They seem to say it should be fine. But there isn't much discussion, so just seeking more confirmation.

Edit3

additional reference https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mongodb-user/0m8KJ7mPWiQ

Answer 1

OK I seem to have found enough articles to conclude:

It's perfectly fine to store html fragments and files in MongoDB as standard utf-8 encoded strings with a few caveats: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/developers/#when-should-i-use-gridfs

Answer 2

You can store it as regular text type of String but validate the HTML well before saving to the database. Here is an example using express-validator and sanitize-html

body('description').not().isEmpty().trim().isLength({ min: 3 }).customSanitizer(value => {     return sanitizeHtml(value, {         exclusiveFilter: (frame) => {             return frame.tag === 'script';         },         textFilter: (value) => {             return value.replace(/\\n|\s\s/g, "").trim()         }     }) }) 

Here i'm getting the HTML from user in description req.body.description and as you can see express-validator to validate for specific rules and sanitize-html to control what i need alongside the default options and i'm stripping script tags as well as new line characters and spaces. I hope that helps.