Index: rssdler.py
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--- rssdler.py	(revision 169)
+++ rssdler.py	(working copy)
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ percentQuoteDict = {u'!': u'%21', u' ': u'%20', u'
   u';': u'%3B', u':': u'%3A', u']': u'%5D', u'[': u'%5B', u'?': u'%3F', 
   u'!':u'%7E'}
 percentunQuoteDict = dict(((j,i) for (i,j) in percentQuoteDict.items()))
+xmlUnEscapeDict = { u'&lt;' : u'<', u'&gt;' : u'>', u'&amp;' : u'&' }
 netscapeHeader= """# HTTP Cookie File
 # http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
 # This is a generated file!  Do not edit.\n\n"""
@@ -327,16 +328,15 @@ def unicodeC( s ):
         raise UnicodeEncodeError(u'could not encode %s to unicode' % s)
     return s
     
-def xmlUnEscape( sStr, percent=0, pd=percentunQuoteDict ):
+def xmlUnEscape( sStr, percent=0, pd=percentunQuoteDict, xd=xmlUnEscapeDict ):
     u"""xml unescape a string, by default also checking for percent encoded 
     characters. set percent=0 to ignore percent encoding. 
     can specify your own percent quote dict 
     (key, value) pairs are of (search, replace) ordering with percentunQuoteDict
     """
-    sStr = sStr.replace("&lt;", "<")
-    sStr = sStr.replace("&gt;", ">")
     if percent: sStr = percentUnQuote( sStr, pd )
-    sStr = sStr.replace("&amp;", "&")
+    for search in xd:
+        sStr = re.sub('(?i)' + re.escape(search), xd[search], sStr)
     return sStr
 
 def percentIsQuoted(sStr, testCases=percentQuoteDict.values()):