Error Traced[line: 1] The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed

Bom dia pessoal,

eu recebi um projeto já desenvolvido e fui colocar dentro do meu eclipse helios,

coloquei “criar novo projeto jsf 1.2 with facelet” …

dae quando eu tento rodar o projeto,

que ele tenta rodar a pagina principal,

da o seguinte erro:


08/09/2010 10:10:32 com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler handleRenderException
SEVERE: Error Rendering View[/paginas/principal.jsp]
com.sun.facelets.FaceletException: Error Parsing /paginas/principal.jsp: Error Traced[line: 1] The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed.
	at com.sun.facelets.compiler.SAXCompiler.doCompile(SAXCompiler.java:234)
	at com.sun.facelets.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:105)
	at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletFactory.createFacelet(DefaultFaceletFactory.java:218)
	at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletFactory.getFacelet(DefaultFaceletFactory.java:149)
	at com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletFactory.getFacelet(DefaultFaceletFactory.java:100)
	at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.buildView(FaceletViewHandler.java:517)
	at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:567)
	at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:100)
	at org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:176)
	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:110)
	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:100)
	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139)
	at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:245)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
	at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:178)
	at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.handleRequest(BaseFilter.java:290)
	at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.processUploadsAndHandleRequest(BaseFilter.java:368)
	at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:495)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:859)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:574)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1527)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Aqui está a página principal:


<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/rich" prefix="rich"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/a4j" prefix="a4j"%>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
	pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<f:view>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
	<a4j:loadStyle src="/recursos/css/estilo.css"></a4j:loadStyle>
	<title>SIGESOP</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<h:graphicImage value='/recursos/imagem/braslimo.png'
		styleClass="imglogo" />
	<h:form>
		<h:panelGrid columns="2">
			<rich:spacer height="10" />
			<h:messages infoClass="success" errorClass="error" warnClass="warn" />
			<h:outputText value="Usuário:" styleClass="login" />
			<h:inputText value="#{usuariosBean.usuarios.usuario}" size="20"
				styleClass="login1" />
			<h:outputText value="Password:" styleClass="login2" />
			<h:inputSecret value="#{usuariosBean.usuarios.senha}" size="20"
				styleClass="login3" />
		</h:panelGrid>
		<rich:spacer height="20" />
		<h:commandButton value="OK" action="#{usuariosBean.login}"
			styleClass="login4" />


		<br>
		

	&lt;/h:form&gt;
	&lt;/body&gt;
	&lt;/html&gt;
&lt;/f:view&gt;

alguém poderia me ajudar ?