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by James Robertson.
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Dave Winer talks about the "tempest in a teapot" issue of markup in titles - it has been one of the primary complaints of the Atom crowd. I've continually failed to see why this gets so much heat from the Atom crowd. As Dave says, the RSS spec on this is silent on markup in titles - but the fact is, the spec talks about markup in description - which leaves it fairly clear that markup in titles is discouraged. This is hardly an issue worth baking a new spec on anyway. All RSS really needs is a best practices document to stand alongside the spec....
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