bug in aelfred parser?

Hi,

I'm having a problem with the latest sources of the Aelfred parser. I 
cannot parse this peace of xml:

<root attr="Hello There &lt;&gt;&amp;" />

For instance, the following code throws an exception:
    public void testAmp() throws Exception {
        String xml = "<root attr=\"Hello There &lt;&gt;&amp;\" />";
        InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes());
       
        SAXParserFactory factory = new JAXPFactory();
        factory.newSAXParser().parse(in, new DefaultHandler());
    }

the exception is:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: & must be encoded either as &amp; or as 
&#38;#38
    at gnu.xml.aelfred2.SAXDriver.fatal(SAXDriver.java:985)
    at gnu.xml.aelfred2.XmlParser.error(XmlParser.java:392)
    at gnu.xml.aelfred2.XmlParser.readLiteral(XmlParser.java:2535)
    at gnu.xml.aelfred2.XmlParser.parseAttribute(XmlParser.java:1110)
    at gnu.xml.aelfred2.XmlParser.parseElement(XmlParser.java:1035)
    at gnu.xml.aelfred2.XmlParser.parseDocument(XmlParser.java:417)
    at gnu.xml.aelfred2.XmlParser.doParse(XmlParser.java:165)
    at gnu.xml.aelfred2.SAXDriver.parse(SAXDriver.java:346)
    at gnu.xml.aelfred2.XmlReader.parse(XmlReader.java:299)
    at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)

This problem is introduced recently, with older Aelfred code (3 months 
old), I didn't have the problem...

Is there something wrong with the aelfred code, or is there a problem 
with my xml document?

regards,
Maarten