What is a defanged-span ?

Hi,

I've been dabbling with RSS feeds and microformats,
embedding a microformat 
in the item description of an RSS2.0 feed. When the RSS feed
is viewed in 
Bloglines, it displays ok in a web browser but, on close
examination of the 
html, it turns out that all the <span> elements have
been renamed as 
<defanged-span>.

I've queried Google to try and establish why this is, but
all I get is lots 
of pages which contain defanged-spans in their html, and no
explanations.

Can anyone on this list explain why Bloglines converts
<span> to 
<defanged-span> when displaying rss feeds?

My best guess is some form of self-defense for Bloglines
against nasty rss 
feeds (though I do not know how it would help), but if so,
why don't other 
rss viewers (such as GoogleReader) do the same thing?

-Chris

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I believe it's using a tool that attempts to disable any
tags it doesn't 
recognise, possibly something like Anomy Sanitizer. Try
using different 
tags, as long as you have the class names you can use any
tag, doesnt 
have to be span. See if there are more suitable semantic
elements you 
can use, spans and divs should always be a last resort.

Chris Gathercole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been dabbling with RSS feeds and microformats,
embedding a 
> microformat in the item description of an RSS2.0 feed.
When the RSS 
> feed is viewed in Bloglines, it displays ok in a web
browser but, on 
> close examination of the html, it turns out that all
the <span> 
> elements have been renamed as <defanged-span>.
>
> I've queried Google to try and establish why this is,
but all I get is 
> lots of pages which contain defanged-spans in their
html, and no 
> explanations.
>
> Can anyone on this list explain why Bloglines converts
<span> to 
> <defanged-span> when displaying rss feeds?
>
> My best guess is some form of self-defense for
Bloglines against nasty 
> rss feeds (though I do not know how it would help), but
if so, why 
> don't other rss viewers (such as GoogleReader) do the
same thing?
>
> -Chris
>
>
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