diff --git a/addons/website/static/src/js/website.translator.js b/addons/website/static/src/js/website.translator.js
index aa9e8de6d56..cfb01d3ec87 100644
--- a/addons/website/static/src/js/website.translator.js
+++ b/addons/website/static/src/js/website.translator.js
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
             // TODO: link nodes with same content
             node.className += ' oe_translatable_text';
             node.setAttribute('data-oe-translation-view-id', view_id);
-            var content = $(node).text().trim();
+            var content = $(node).html().trim();
             var trans = this.translations.filter(function (t) {
                 return t.res_id === view_id && t.value && t.value.trim() === content;
             });
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@
                     trans[data.oeTranslationViewId] = [];
                 }
                 trans[data.oeTranslationViewId].push({
-                    initial_content: openerp.qweb.tools.html_escape(self.getInitialContent(this)),
-                    new_content: openerp.qweb.tools.html_escape($node.text()),
+                    initial_content: self.getInitialContent(this),
+                    new_content: $node.html(),
                     translation_id: data.oeTranslationId || null
                 });
             });
diff --git a/openerp/workflow/instance.py b/openerp/workflow/instance.py
index c4ae46d9747..b2182dfe75b 100644
--- a/openerp/workflow/instance.py
+++ b/openerp/workflow/instance.py
@@ -70,7 +70,12 @@ class WorkflowInstance(object):
         cr = self.session.cr
         cr.execute("select * from wkf_workitem where inst_id=%s", (self.instance['id'],))
         stack = []
-        for work_item_values in cr.dictfetchall():
+        for i, work_item_values in enumerate(cr.dictfetchall()):
+            if i > 0:
+                # test if previous workitem has already processed this one
+                cr.execute("select id from wkf_workitem where id=%s", (work_item_values['id'],))
+                if not cr.fetchone():
+                    continue
             wi = WorkflowItem(self.session, self.record, work_item_values)
             wi.process(signal=signal, force_running=force_running, stack=stack)
             # An action is returned