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		CharlesW on Sept 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS There's no concept of an "excerpt" in RSS, but if we're talking item descriptions, the RSS 2.0 spec says that HTML is allowed and provides examples. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-encoding-examples

ttepasse on Sept 17, 2018 | [–]

Those examples came later than Dave Winer's stewardship. Those were made by the RSS Board which is its own point of weirdness in RSS' history.

spc476 on Sept 17, 2018 | [–]

You could include the whole post or just a portion in the feed, but Dave never clarified how it was to be encoded.

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