It appears as though some characters are getting multiply escaped in the XML responses, is this by design? Unfortunately, it's causing a problem for an application that I am writing. I am using expat to parse a friends_timeline response and displaying the message in a Gtk application. Consider the following (partial) text element in the XML:
...for fall. ->@inspiredjen The original, intended message reads "...for fall. ->@inspiredjen". As you can see, it appears the greater-than sign is escaped twice...once to >, and then again to >. The problem is, there are other characters in other messages that are getting escaped just once, as you'd expect. For example, in the same fetch I am currently running, standalone ampersands are getting properly escaped as &. The end result is that some characters will display properly and some won't. Oddly enough, it is displaying properly on the web, and in Tweetie. Any suggestions?
