diff --git a/quickstart/testapp/src/main/resources/applicationContext-testapp.xml b/quickstart/testapp/src/main/resources/applicationContext-testapp.xml
index be28d4503..b13bd3f75 100644
--- a/quickstart/testapp/src/main/resources/applicationContext-testapp.xml
+++ b/quickstart/testapp/src/main/resources/applicationContext-testapp.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"