I am using XML:RSS to generate an RSS feed for my website. I am passing a string that will always have HTML encoding to the RSS item's description element. I want to set the description element as CDATA. I have reviewed the XML:RSS module docs but I am not clear of how to do this. Here is a representative code example:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use XML::RSS;

my $description = "<b>How do I get this to be CDATA?</b>";

my $rss = new XML::RSS (output=>'2.0');

$rss->channel(
        title           => "Sample RSS Feed",
        'link'          => "http://www.somewhere.com",
        description     => "Example Feed",
);

$rss->add_item(
    title   => "Test",
    'link'  => "http://www.testitem.com",
    description => $description,
);

print $rss->as_string();
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...which creates an item description element that looks like the below:

...

<item>
<title>Test</title>
<link>http://www.testitem.com</link>
<description>&#x3C;b&#x3E;How do I get this to be CDATA?&#x3C;/b&#x3E;
+</description>
</item>
...
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However I want it to look as follows:

<code>
...

<item>
<title>Test</title>
<link>http://www.testitem.com</link>
<description><![CDATA[[<b>How do I get this to be CDATA</b>]]></descri
+ption>
</item>
...
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Thanks in advance.