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Dan Connolly's tinkering lab notebook

Toward richtext syndicated feed

Our RSS feed is plaintext, so when it's syndicated in Planet RDF and the like, there are no links or pictures or even paragraph breaks.

From #swig discussion, I gather that the state-of-the-art is to use nasty escaped markup, but I'm not up for that. The RDF Core WG didn't spend 18 months getting the details of parseType="Literal" right for nothing, did we?

I don't know if there are drupal modules available that Do The Right Thing, and due to my PHP angst I don't really want to know. But maybe there's a motivated student out there... ?