Can not find declaration of element 'xml'

[AccinsgAk]

I'm getting a lot of parsing errors from python related to my xml file. I read elsewhere on stackoverflow that I should validate the xml file first.I can't understand why this xml will not validate:\[code\]<xml><hive name="myprojectname">\[/code\]XML validator says thisError: Can not find declaration of element 'xml'. Error Position: \[code\]<xml><hive name="myprojectname">\[/code\]