Why are you storing HTML tags in your Database?
Why not?
Leave alone why I'm doing it, this is a fairly typical thing of any system where content is stored for later retrieval.
For example, if it were a blog, the author of a blog page would from time to time, perhaps, wish to write things in bold, italic, or silly things like headers and lists. Same thing applies to wiki-like behavior, unless you invent some rediculous meta-format to substute for HTML this actually makes LESS sense than HTML. Or not.
At any rate, the actual question (putting my QA hat on) is: why is someone messing with my data?
"Things fall apart. The Center cannot hold."
- Life as a QA geek, in a nutshell.
Best,
Jeff
