Well ... I've done some digging and isolated the problem.

1) There's a known bug in the PEAR::XML_RPC package ( http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=987 ) that generates the 'double coded' character entities. I've resolved that (sort of) for the Bloggar new and update methods (haven't had a chance ...

I just tried BlogJet (in BloggerAPI mode) and see the same behavior exhibited when using w.bloggar:

- Title doesn't get separated
- Body includes munged XML fragment (including title)

I don't think it's the serendipity_xmlrpc.php file ... it seems to be the XML-RPC message parser (in PEAR ...

I'm still seeing badly formatted posts with 0.6. The title doesn't get parsed out as an entity, and the body content (if I look through the web author interface after attempting an XML-RPC post) looks like:

<<title>>TITLE HERE<</title>>BODY HERE

It appears that some encoding's occuring that's ...