& converted into & which breaks links

[Ali Ebrahim]

Hi,

I have two questions, will ask in sequence.

Question 1: Ampersand Parsing
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When I use a source feed like this:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/AkhbarBiladImaniyah

All the post title links have ampersands in them, but after Venus is 
done parsing, it changes the & into & and this breaks the links. For 
example, this:

http://www.zeninfosys.net/zeninfosys/archive_akhbar_details.php?AkhbarType=3&AkhbarID=1608&AkhbarMonth=8&AkhbarYear=1430

becomes this:

http://www.zeninfosys.net/zeninfosys/archive_akhbar_details.php?AkhbarType=3&AkhbarID=1607&AkhbarMonth=8&AkhbarYear=1430

And this problem exists in the generated HTML page and the generated 
Atom file as well. You can see the output on:

http://planetbohra.org/
-and-
http://planetbohra.org/atom.xml

How can I avoid this problem?

Question 2: Planet Venus versions
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As Venus does not have any official versions, it's a bit difficult for 
non-programmers like me to discern what has changed since the version of 
Venus I am using (or even if anything relevant as changed at all).

It would be nice if there were six-monthly versioned releases with a 
changelog of what happened between the releases so that we know if an 
upgrade is required.

At the moment I'm running code from April 2008 and I have no idea if I 
should upgrade or not, and what files need to be replaced. Some more 
information on this aspect of Venus would be very much welcome.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
Ali

-- 
Ali Ebrahim
ali at ebrahim.org