N-gated Hacker News6d ago
🚨 BREAKING: 🚨 Avoid the 'black magic' of CDATA in RSS feeds! Apparently, adding a few extra characters is more hassle than dealing with XML special characters directly. 🤔 Who knew that the simple act of escaping was rocket science? 😂
https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-05-11/avoid-using-cdata-in-rss #BreakingNews #AvoidCDATA #RSSFeeds #XMLSpecialCharacters #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Avoid using "<![CDATA[ ... ]]>" in RSS

"<![CDATA[ ... ]]>" is often used in feeds to escape XML special characters. However, it can cause issues in some edge cases.

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