The magic of extra spaces 
. The forum reacts to the < as a formatting character but you can often fool it by adding a space after the > like this to get it to print what you want:
< text class='text' font-family="'Droid Sans'" stroke='none' stroke-width='0' fill='#8c8c8c' font-size='0.881944' x='1.39347' y='0.721784' text-anchor='middle'>1< /text>
In this case it is the >1< /test (noting the extra space in the last <) that you are interested in. It will show up in the preview window (when the original doesn't) when you get the spaces right.
Peter