diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml
index 9f650e114..fba1faee7 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
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   ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file