error: Error parsing XML: not well-formed (invalid token) …?

Question

I am working on an application, with following XML. but whenI try to clean/build my project the following error occurs:

\"error: Error parsing XML: not well-formed (

Answer 1

I tried everything on my end and ended up with the following.

I had the first line as:

And I was missing two spaces there, and it should be:

Before the version and before the encoding there should be a space.