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Atom Feed Optimisations (and bugfixes)

Hello again!

I have made a few tweaks to this blog's feed that I think that you might want to know about.

Firstly, I fixed the bug with the named html entities breaking the feed. Apparently XML doesn't like named html entities much. This has involved a number of tweaks to atom.gen.php - You will see that the script is now ~30kb(!) - this is due to the inclusion of a named html entity to numeric html entity conversion table. You will now also see (?) if an unknown named html entity couldn't be converted successful.

Secondly, I have improved the performance of the feed by only showing the last 15 posts in the feed. I didn't notice at first, but this has been slowing the server down for some time because it been adding every post I have made so far (62 for those of you who are counting) to the feed, every time someone requests it.

Hopefully these changes don't have any unintended side-effects, but if they do please let me know in the comments below.

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