XML payload not working in latest nightly build?

Hi,

we are having a problem with an XML payload in a SOAP body. With SOAP 
2.3.1, the official stable release, this is working just fine. An issue 
with proxy auth via https is forcing us to use the nightly build from 
Apr 2004 though. With this nightly the XML payload received on the 
client has been stripped _completely_ from each angle bracket (among 
others). To be clear about this: the XML string on the receiving side 
looks as if someone replaced all occurrences of < and > with nothing.

Then we tried to prefix the string on the sending side with "<![CDATA[" 
and postfix with "]]>". That did not help either.

Is this a bug in the nightly build or how is this supposed to work?

Thanks
Werner