Heh. Actually the abandonment of xhtml:body was just an oversight. Last time I tweaked the XSLT code that emits the feed, I must have accidentally omitted it.

I guess I’ll put it back, but two points:

1. For the whole time it was there nobody made any special use of it. And I didn’t need it for my own purposes because I have all the original content in its canonical XHTML format.

2. Because I write in XHTML and validate the well-formedness of what I publish, you will find that when unescape what’s in the description element it is in fact well-formed.