Seems like I found a fix for the problem due to which HTML embedded in my posts (like links etc) were being parsed incorrectly. Here is a link that discusses the issue: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7771. Turns out that the problem lies with the fact that the XML parser on the WP server side was not parsing the XML that was coming in through the XML-RPC payload. There is a plugin that works around this problem. That plugin is here: http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/02/update-on-libxml2-issues/.
I have downloaded the plugin and installed it. Hopefully it would work. This post is a test. The proper fix is to update to the correct PHP version. I will get to it someday….
