Is there any reason that still exists today for RSS feeds to have both the <description> and <content:encoded> tags at the item level?
From my experience there is never any difference between the con...
@nprofile1q... Historically, <description> was the text of the shownotes and <content:encoded> was an HTML version of the shownotes. I don't think that was ever formally written in any place but was the common convention. I think you can safely drop <content:encoded> and just use <description> with HTML as a CDATA section.
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