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Hi,

Using encode_entities makes this sort of thing happen:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: http://XXX.YYY.ZZZ/

and points to the relevant entity.

I think using encode_entities_numeric would help a lot with this. This is just a naïve assessment, but this would prevent xml-like pages being non-xml.

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> I suppose you mean a html generator, and not a html parser.
> 
> ikiwiki uses numeric entities where required, but not otherwise.
> 
> It seems valid for xhtml to have eg, `<` in it. Do you have a specific
> example? --[[Joey]]