Seam Text Improperly Handles Ampersand

[mdesignz]

Under Seam 2.2.0.GA and JBoss 5.1, placing the following in the iText example (html.xhtml):

    <p:html>
        <s:formattedText value="Anything past the &#38; will be dropped" />
    </p:html>  

Produces:

Anything past the

the remainder of the line is dropped.
All other variants (&) etc, do the same thing.   Any suggestions for a work around?
I created the following JIRA:
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-4475