Why is this content invisible when prepended or html'd?

I am trying to prepend a string but it is invisible for some reason. Anyone know what is wrong with it?

$('#someelement').prepend('<div id="chunk" chunk_id="302724de111fd8fd4a7.92282758">
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You need to put all the HTML on a single line (remove the line breaks).

The other choice is to put a backslash at the end of every line. This will work:

$('#someelement').prepend('<div id="chunk" chunk_id="302724de111fd8fd4a7.92282758"> \
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</div>');

The content is never added to the DOM, that's why it is not visible.

Running the code gives:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

You cannot split your string over multiple lines like this.
It works if everything is on one line: http://jsfiddle.net/JCTpG/

When I put everything on one line it works for me: http://jsfiddle.net/