diff --git a/lib/jekyll/filters.rb b/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
index 8db55e22..cb7c5d51 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ module Jekyll
     end
 
   end  
-end
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+end
diff --git a/test/test_filters.rb b/test/test_filters.rb
index 50da2d32..9cd25f6d 100644
--- a/test/test_filters.rb
+++ b/test/test_filters.rb
@@ -29,4 +29,9 @@ class TestFilters < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_equal "chunky, bacon, bits, and pieces", @filter.array_to_sentence_string(["chunky", "bacon", "bits", "pieces"])
   end
   
-end
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+  def test_xml_escape_with_ampersands
+    assert_equal "AT&amp;T", @filter.xml_escape("AT&T")
+    assert_equal "&lt;code&gt;command &amp;lt;filename&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;", @filter.xml_escape("<code>command &lt;filename&gt;</code>")
+  end
+  
+end