Does anyone know where I can find the rules for writing an RSS feed?

[Bev]

I have setup the messages system that MrDolan wrote

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/web-development/144188-student-messages-bulletin-system.html

 

It works really well, except that occasionally a staff member will add a message that 'breaks' the RSS feed. I am trying to find the rules for the feed so that I can clean up any messages before they are sent to the feed in an attempt to stop them breaking. I'm currently removing New Lines and various other characters but something is still slipping through as about once a week it will break.

[Arthur]

These may help?

 

• www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
  
• www.rssboard.org/rss-profile
  

[TechMonkey]

I use the W3C RSS validation tool. Just paste the generated XML into the box and it will tell you any issues or recommendations (which you can ignore).

[Bev]

I have found the CDATA command from one of the above links, and so far so good. Of course, I won't know for sure if until it breaks again!

 

XML CDATA