Thank you for the grounding, I was unsure myself.
dimitarvp
garrison
Thanks for confirming. Note that there is some further guidance from the erlef for the sax parser.
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derek-zhou
CDATA is just string, which is handled in Floki’s built in parser here:
Yes, it is common practice to embed HTML content in the feeds. I handle 2 most common cases:
- directly insert the html DOM tree within the RSS
itemThis is probably not 100% kosher XML but it is very easy to handle. I just take the HTML sub-node verbatim. - embed the html fragment as an encoded string. I just take the string, call Floki again on it to parse the html structure
I believe the above 2 cases handle the 99% feeds in the wild. They are embarrassingly easy to handle so I will skip posting my not very elegant code. If you see something more exotic than this, please give me a url, I’d like to play with it.
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