Allow choice between `write_cdata_element` and `write_text_element` about rss HOT 5 CLOSED

Description usually contains HTML markup, so additional whitespace characters (e.g. newline) are ignored by RSS viewers.

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Yes, but my <br> tags are not rendering either.

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Do viewers not typically render HTML in the description tag?
If this ask makes no sense I'm fine to close it. Just offering to do the work if it would be an improvement.

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If you want a <br> to be in a description, you need to set it explicitly. Like

channel.set_description("First line<br>Second line");

Generally, you may start with PR containing a failing test. This would be a good starting point to understand where the problem is (if any).

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Looks like this is just an issue with the specific reader I was testing on.

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