I see now, probably just something to do with formatting/escaping, the <> are being swallowed. Yes, it's strange. I'd prefer to map a null in a DTO to an empty

I see now, probably just something to do with formatting/escaping, the <> are being swallowed. Yes, it's strange. I'd prefer to map a null in a DTO to an empty optional. I'd like even more to never have nulls in the dto in the first place.