[mkgmap-dev] splitter produces invalid xml

Hello list, I found a bug in splitter, but don't know how to fix it. The problem is the following: There is a way, that is member of a relation and has special characters in its role-tag. Look here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/26683153 The role tag in the osm-data, which I get from the Api is: role='<->' Ok, now I use the splitter and just try to split this file. The role-tag changes: role='<->' and so it's just invalid xml and mkgmap dies with a bad-file-format error. Can anybody explain the problem here with splitter? Why does it change the escaped characters and unescapes them? I use the latest splitter version from svn. Thanks Christoph