I’ve been running into issues posting blog entries from Windows Live Writer to Jooma and WordPress where the leading angle brackets in the P and A HTML tags were being stripped out. After many google searches, I finally found out what it is. It turns out there is a bug in one of the XML libraries in PHP that makes it silently drop any encoded text such as < and > which related to < >.
There does not appear to be a fix at the moment other than compiling PHP with libexpat. I tried doing this and ran into one problem after another. I had to download all of the development tools, libraries and required components for PHP in order to configure for my OS. Once I finally got it configured, I attempted to compile the program with no luck. It came back with an “unknown error” so I need to review logs and see what’s missing.
Hopefully, a bug fix is released very soon…more details below.