Special Characters: Ampersands & Angle Brackets < > in Titles

This post tests XML entity handling. The title contains an ampersand and angle brackets, which WordPress encodes as &amp; and &lt;&gt; in the RSS feed XML. The parser should decode these back to their literal values before populating title._value in the template context.

Description also contains entities: “quoted” text, apostrophe’s, and an em dash — all of which appear as named or numeric XML entities in the raw feed XML.