Re: atom:name ... text or html?

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-23 17:30]:
>If I have an author with the name "Bertrand Café", is it
>acceptable to put that into atom:author like this;
>
>    <author><name><![CDATA[Bertrand Caf&eacute;]]></name></author>

No. That means the author’s name is Bertrand Caf&eacute; (he must
have had very cruel parents), not Bertrand Café.

>or should I be using the unicode numeric entity instead?

Yes. Or use a literal é as you did in this mail, provided you
emit the feed as UTF-8 (or ISO-8859-1, if you must).

Regards,
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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>