I finally decided to spend a little bit of time and see if I can get the workaround implemented for the issue where the desktop blogging client strips html tags. A visitor to my site left a comment stating that all that needed to be done was copy over a 2.6.32 or older version of the libxml2 library and redo the symbolic links to point to the older library. Thanks to Elliot! It really was that easy to fix. My server is a 64bit architecture so I also had to redo the symbolic link in /usr/lib64.
To find the libxml2 file for your system, simply do a search for your platform on one of the rpm repository search sites like http://rpm.pbone.net or http://rpmfind.net I already had the 32 bit library, but found the 64 bit using the pbone.net site. Then, all you need to do is extract the contents of the rpm into a temporary directory and copy over the libxml2.so.version into /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 if your architecture is 64 bit. Last step is to delete existing symbolic links to the current libxml2 version and replace with the legacy version.
Here is a screenshot of the libxml2 files in my /usr directory. Notice the symbolic links in blue that point to the older libxml2 version.
Once I did this, I restarted the web server and no more html tags were stripped when posting from a desktop client. In fact, this post was written with Windows Live Writer and was published to my site without any problems.
Hopefully this works for you. If you have any questions on this process, drop me a comment and I’ll respond back.