Paper Bits » lazyweb http://metacarpal.net/blog digital, paper, notes and bits. Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:36:51 +0000 en hourly 1 Is HTML broken for everyone in Wordpress 2.7 or is it just me? http://metacarpal.net/blog/archives/2009/02/28/is-markdown-broken-for-everyone-in-wordpress-27-or-is-it-just-me/ http://metacarpal.net/blog/archives/2009/02/28/is-markdown-broken-for-everyone-in-wordpress-27-or-is-it-just-me/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:14:58 +0000 Josh http://metacarpal.net/blog/?p=295 The following is what I get when I drop a Flickr photo into my blogging software, paste HTML in, or try to post from Flickr:

    a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035715190@N01/3264441491" 
    title="View 'IMG_2448.JPG' on Flickr.com"img 
    src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1156/3264441491_7e5481fb04.jpg" 
    alt="IMG_2448.JPG" border="0" width="500" height="375" //a

All the angle brackets get stripped out.

This never used to happen before, with (mumble) Wordpress 2.03 on the old host, using PHP Markdown.

[UPDATE]

After some further research, it appears that Markdown is not at fault: it runs at rendering time and doesn’t change the contents of your database.

According to this blog post by Joshua Scott, lt; and gt; entities are being dumped when the content is posted through an XML-RPC gateway, like my blogging software, or Flickr’s “blog this” feature.

This appears to be a bug in one of the PHP XML libraries, which has been fixed in the latest CVS build, but requires libxml2-2.7.3 or higher.

Off to bug Joyent.

(Edited a bit to remove speculation about PHP Markdown and Wordpress XHTML options.)

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