+
+>> For a start, `]]>` in content wouldn't break the feed :-) but I was really thinking of non-XML, non-SGML parsers (more tag soup) that don't understand CDATA (I've suffered from CDATA damage when feeding generated code through gtkdoc, for instance). --[[smcv]]
+
+>>> FWIW, the htmlscrubber escapes the `]]>`. (Wouldn't hurt to make that
+>>> more robust tho.)
+>>>
+>>> ikiwiki has used CDATA from the beginning -- this is the first time
+>>> I've heard about rss 2.0 parsers that didn't know about CDATA.
+>>>
+>>> (IIRC, I used CDATA because the result is more space-efficient and less
+>>> craptacular to read manually.)