The query VarDecl009 is given as:

declare variable $x := '<bold>A sample element.</bold>' ; 
$x

and the results are shown as

<bold>A sample element.</bold>

This would be the correct output if the result were serialized using the text
output method, but apparently all results are now serialized using the XML
output method, regardless of the comparator used. The results should therefore be

&lt;bold&gt;A sample element.&lt;/bold&gt;

or equivalent.