Now I remember why I stopped using Windows Live Writer…

Somewhere in the last year I stopped using Windows Live Writer because posts to my WordPress Blog had the angle brackets stripped out of them. I’m sure I searched the Web looking for a similar experience. Dominating my judgment was the assumption that it was Microsoft’s fault—and ‘they’ did not care to fix the problem. It looks like I’ve had poor judgment:

On closer observation, I realized that the < and > were stripped out completely.

That’s a quote from Ajay D’Souza who went on to point these out:

• “Problems With libxml2 For WordPress XML-RPC Users” (from 2008!)
• “Plugin – LibXML2 Fix” (may not be necessary with the latest version of XAMPP)

Solving this problem with the above leads, would be a classic case of enjoying being wrong—and, of course, a classic case of “upgrade hell”: the total cost of being a control freaky do-it-yourself creep.

BTW: one quick way out of this problem is to go to Source view in Windows Live Writer, copy the mark up and paste it into the WordPress editor.

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