The freedesktop.org.xml file in CVS has entries like: <match offset="0:64" type="string" value="<!DOCTYPE\ xbel" /> which is forbidden in XML. freedesktop.org.xml.in has those entries properly "escaped" as <DOCTYPE Regenerating freedesktop.org.xml with a recent intltool recreates a valid XML file.
latest intltool fixes this.
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