SSI Improvements?

[Lemon Head]

Hi,
I just made a site which uses the SSI news output feature so that a friend with no web design knowledge can update his main home page of the site by posting in the IPB's news forum.
I had to disable the links to add comments and view the profile of the poster of each news item, because the links for those features contain characters like & which cause the page validation to fail. (The page that contains the news is XHTML valid).

This is a shame and I wondered if this could be addressed and any other improvements have or could be made to the SSI output of IPBv2.x?

[Matt]

You're better off moving over to the RSS export features in IPB 2.1.0+

[Lemon Head]

Thanks!