Page crashes when special characters are in contributor names

Overview:
On editing pick slips settings to have contributor names, requests app crashes with the attached image.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. One of our tenants has data like '<1957-> in instance contributor names
2. Go to Settings->Circulation-> Pick Slips -> In pick slip template , add item.primaryContributor or item.allContributors tokens
3. Save, logout and log back in to FOLIO and click on Requests app.
4. App crashes with a page as attached in the image.

Expected Results:
Requests app does not crash and shows the list of requests

Actual Results:
Requests app crashes

Additional Information:
I've checked data to verify that item does not have contributor information. Its only instances that have contributor info like the above pattern.
They also have these patterns <1957- ;Roma>, <1957-2010>, <1957- >, <1957->
Unsure why UI code is treating it as xml tags

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