I had the same issue. In sitemap-core.php, line 361 I replace this:
return str_replace ( array ( '&', '"', "'", '<', '>'), array ( '&' , '"', ''' , '<' , '>'), $string);
With this:
return str_replace ( array ( '&', '"', "'", '<', '>' , 'https'), array ( '&' , '"', ''' , '<' , '>' , 'http'), $string);