title: What is a good strategy to store HTML in MongodDB JSON-style doc
body: <p>Is it OK to store HTML in MongoDB? Are there disadvantages? Are there better alternatives?</p>
  
  <p>I'm a bit new to JSON, but I'm planning migrate my WordPress site to a custom meteor/mongodb site.</p>
  
  <p>In WordPress our "Posts" are essentially product records, and the "main content" is the product's description. These descriptions contain some HTML markup, such as "strong" tags, break tags, and href hyperlinks.</p>
  
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  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Unlike XML, JSON lacks something like CDATA. Is it a bad idea to try and put HTML in my JSON-style doc description field? Are there special escape characters for doing this? Or should I store the HTML product description as a external, static file? Or are there other best practices? </p>
  
  <pre><code>{
  '_id':'236',
  'name':'Tokyo Marui M9A1 Gas Blow Back Airsoft Gun',
  'description':'&lt;p&gt;html here?&lt;/p&gt;',
  'tags': ['toys','outdoors']
  ...
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any tip, advice, links appreciated! </p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>Sample product description text added.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT2</strong></p>
  
  <p>I found this stackoverflow article:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12139656/how-to-store-html-data-in-mongodb">How to store HTML data in MongoDB?</a></p>
  
  <p>and another on google
  <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mongodb-user/HW5XB5yox20" rel="noreferrer">https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mongodb-user/HW5XB5yox20</a></p>
  
  <p>They seem to say it should be fine. But there isn't much discussion, so just seeking more confirmation.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit3</strong></p>
  
  <p>additional reference
  <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mongodb-user/0m8KJ7mPWiQ" rel="noreferrer">https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mongodb-user/0m8KJ7mPWiQ</a></p>