Before I started the preference proliferation thread, I conversed with Bill Kearney on his radio-features list about so-called double encoding. Now they're arguing about it on the RSS 1.0 working group list, rss-dev. Apparently double encoding means putting HTML in RSS, period, to some. Bill Kearney says it means just using encoding instead of CDATA sections. They are, as has been pointed out in the rss-dev thread, entirely equivalent as far as XML is concerned, so I don't see how one can be OK while the other isn't.
The entire RSS world is out to sea. With a little confidence I might write a Python version of Stapler for myself to hedge my Radio bet, but I doubt I'd release it.
