Picture library with thumbnail fails to covert to xslt data view

Today i had an issue hen i tried to convert a picture library view to an xslt view to add some custom actions. As soon as i converted the webpart i received an error: "Invalid XSLT stylesheet Error: invalid character". Once i opened the xslt i found that the thumbnail template had not been exported correctly and had malformed xml. Inorder to resolve the issue i simply replaced the thumbnail template with the following....