ApplicationContext

Olá Pessoal, estou comum problema no meu XML o erro é o seguinte:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 5 in XML document from resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext-hibernate.xml] of ServletContext is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed.
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:133)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:123)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:65)
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:232)
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.refresh(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:131)
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:154)
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:95)
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderServlet.init(ContextLoaderServlet.java:80)
javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256)
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:657)
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:476)
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.checkContextLastModified(HostConfig.java:874)
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1075)
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:372)
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

O Context é assim:

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC “-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN” “http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd”>

<bean id="propertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
	&lt;property name="location"&gt;&lt;value&gt;/WEB-INF/jdbc.properties&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/property&gt;
</bean>

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
	&lt;property name="driverClassName"&gt;&lt;value&gt;${jdbc.driverClassName}&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/property&gt;
	&lt;property name="url"&gt;&lt;value&gt;${jdbc.url}&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/property&gt;
	&lt;property name="username"&gt;&lt;value&gt;${jdbc.username}&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/property&gt;
	&lt;property name="password"&gt;&lt;value&gt;${jdbc.password}&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/property&gt;
</bean>

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
	&lt;property name="dataSource"&gt;&lt;ref local="dataSource"/&gt;&lt;/property&gt;
	&lt;property name="mappingResources"&gt;
		&lt;value&gt;/WEB-INF/hibernate/CentroDeCustos.hbm&lt;/value&gt;
	&lt;/property&gt;
	&lt;property name="hibernateProperties"&gt;
		&lt;props&gt;
			&lt;prop key="hibernate.dialect"&gt;${jdbc.hibernate.dialect}&lt;/prop&gt;
		&lt;/props&gt;
	&lt;/property&gt;
</bean>

<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateTransactionManager">
	&lt;property name="sessionFactory"&gt;&lt;ref local="sessionFactory"/&gt;&lt;/property&gt;
</bean>

Alguém pode me ajudar?

Grato,
Orlando Cesar Martins

ta falando a tag root, que engloba todas as outras, como a <beans>