Steps to reproduce:
1. Open the attached user's project "Test22353.zip"
2. Switch to Android and build
3. Observe the console error

Expected results: The previous XML format should still work with newer versions of the editor despite the Gradle and AGP upgrades
Actual results: AndroidManifest.xml detects the “<” symbol between tags as invalid and outputs an "System.Xml.XmlException" error failing the build

Reproducible: 2021.3.47f1, 2022.3.55f1, 6000.0.33f1, 6000.1.0a9

Testing Environment: Windows 11 23H2
Not reproducible on: no other environment tested

Notes:
-Workaround: Open the AndroidManifest.xml file -> Go to line 6 and erase the “<” character at column 92 -> Try the build. It should work now
-User reported that the issue does not reproduce on 2022.3.37f1 (assigning <google_ad_manager_app_id> dynamically) and reproduces with 2022.3.38f1
-Gradle and AGP upgrade from 7.2 to 7.5.1 and 7.1.2 to 7.4.2 coincides with 2022.3.38f1 reproducing the issue for the user
-The XML files passes validators. The issue only happens with the “<” character, if the “>" character is left there are no problems. It seems to be an issue with the XML parser
-Error message:
System.Xml.XmlException: '<', hexadecimal value 0x3C, is an invalid attribute character