How to age fast: parsing XHTML

Dear reader,

If you wrote the XML spec then I want you to know that I think you made a ******* bad job of it. Fancy missing out @ @ by default and making us have to use @ @ instead. Did you realise the problems this would cause parsing valid XHML pages?

OK, why the rant? Well, I’ve just spent 2 hours trying to track down a problem while using FormProcessor, and have just found it:
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Yes folks, that’s what’s wasted so much time. One measily entity that isn’t included by default.

Bah.

Oh, and more details on the reasons behind this problem in this “PHP bug report”:http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15092.