1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890'
to SMF devs:
the above is a test-string which demonstrates the generation of a bogus rss-feed item,
because the <description> data is brutely cutted at 255 chars output
if the around the 255th char a CDATA string is sent, all goes well,
but if any of the special chars tags are sent, the generated xml has a syntax error.
from the generated xml file
<description><![CDATA[1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890]]>&#...</description>