diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index f3916d47..b05df225 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.0.9 (2012-09-24 12:44:38) stable
+Version 2.0.9 (2012-09-24 12:48:35) stable
diff --git a/gluon/compileapp.py b/gluon/compileapp.py
index 6873ca74..30ed9278 100644
--- a/gluon/compileapp.py
+++ b/gluon/compileapp.py
@@ -579,8 +579,7 @@ def run_controller_in(controller, function, environment):
     response = environment['response']
     vars=response._vars
     if response.postprocessing:
-        for p in response.postprocessing:
-            vars = p(vars)
+        vars = reduce(lambda vars, p: p(vars), response.postprocessing, vars)
     if isinstance(vars,unicode):
         vars = vars.encode('utf8')
     elif hasattr(vars,'xml') and callable(vars.xml):
diff --git a/gluon/html.py b/gluon/html.py
index 77fb0bd4..f8ab3b63 100644
--- a/gluon/html.py
+++ b/gluon/html.py
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ regex_crlf = re.compile('\r|\n')
 
 join = ''.join
 
+# name2codepoint is incomplete respect to xhtml (and xml): 'apos' is missing.
+entitydefs = dict(map(lambda (k,v): (k, unichr(v).encode('utf-8')), name2codepoint.iteritems()))
+entitydefs.setdefault('apos', u"'".encode('utf-8'))
+
+
 __all__ = [
     'A',
     'B',
@@ -243,7 +248,7 @@ def URL(
         elif a and c and not f: (c,f,a)=(a,c,f)
         from globals import current
         if hasattr(current,'request'):
-            r = current.request    
+            r = current.request
 
     if r:
         application = r.application
@@ -487,7 +492,7 @@ class XmlComponent(object):
             components += [other]
         return CAT(*components)
 
-    def add_class(self, name):        
+    def add_class(self, name):
         """ add a class to _class attribute """
         c = self['_class']
         classes = (set(c.split()) if c else set())|set(name.split())
@@ -2300,7 +2305,7 @@ class MENU(DIV):
             select = SELECT(**self.attributes)
         for item in data:
             if len(item) <= 4 or item[4] == True:
-                select.append(OPTION(CAT(prefix, item[0]), 
+                select.append(OPTION(CAT(prefix, item[0]),
                                      _value=item[2], _selected=item[1]))
                 if len(item)>3 and len(item[3]):
                     self.serialize_mobile(
@@ -2426,7 +2431,7 @@ class web2pyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
         else:
             self.parent.append(unichr(int(name)).encode('utf8'))
     def handle_entityref(self,name):
-        self.parent.append(unichr(name2codepoint[name]).encode('utf8'))
+        self.parent.append(entitydefs[name])
     def handle_endtag(self, tagname):
         # this deals with unbalanced tags
         if tagname==self.last:
@@ -2530,10 +2535,3 @@ class MARKMIN(XmlComponent):
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     import doctest
     doctest.testmod()
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