Specifically, ampersands (i.e. &) are no longer being escaped. This means that if you have a node entitled "foo & bar", it is not rendered as "foo & bar". Thus a parser such as XML::Simple coughs and dies when it encounters it.
Do not adjust your set, this is entirely normal.
In reply to XML User Nodes Generator ticker broken by grinder
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