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If a blog entry contains a HTML named entity, such as the — produced by [[plugins/rst]] for blockquote citations, it's pasted into the Atom feed as-is. However, Atom feeds don't have a DTD, so named entities beyond <, >, ", & and ' aren't well-formed XML.
Possible solutions:

Put HTML in Atom feeds as type="html" (and use ESCAPE=HTML) instead


Are there any particular downsides to doing that ..? --[[Joey]]


Keep HTML in Atom feeds as type="xhtml", but replace named entities with numeric ones,
like in the re-escape-entities branch in my repository (diff here)

(Also, the HTML in RSS feeds would probably get better interoperability if it was escaped with ESCAPE=HTML rather than being in a CDATA section?)

Can't see why? --[[Joey]]