Doxia misses line breaks in apt when \ is not followed by \n

Trying to force a line break in an apt file using \ as explained in [1] does not work on the windows platform.
A test case is provided as a very simple maven project using the minimal pom from [2] and only an index.apt file in src/main/site/apt

Simply run 'mvn site' on a windows box to reproduce the issue.

The resulting page fom target/site/index.html displays :
Line\ break.
instead of :
Line
break.

[1] http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-apt-format.html
[2] http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html