Ticket #7771: wp-includes--class-IXR.php.diff

wp-includes/class-IXR.php

@@ -169 +169 @@
         xml_set_object($this->_parser, $this);
         xml_set_element_handler($this->_parser, 'tag_open', 'tag_close');
         xml_set_character_data_handler($this->_parser, 'cdata');
+
+                // libxml2 2.7.0 -2.7.2 stripping leading angle brackets bug patch
+                // See http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7771
+                if ( LIBXML_DOTTED_VERSION == '2.7.0' || LIBXML_DOTTED_VERSION == '2.7.1' || LIBXML_DOTTED_VERSION == '2.7.2' ) {
+                        $this->message = str_replace( '<', '<', $this->message );
+                        $this->message = str_replace( '>', '>', $this->message );
+                        $this->message = str_replace( '&', '&', $this->message );
+                }
+
         if (!xml_parse($this->_parser, $this->message)) {
             /* die(sprintf('XML error: %s at line %d',
                 xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($this->_parser)),