Hibernate ...in thread "main" javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Unable to configure EntityMana

Olá,

estou tentando gerar a instancia do banco mysql e me dá esse erro…

alguém ode me ajudar …

java 1.5
hibernate
mysql

abs


Exception in thread "main" javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Unable to configure EntityManagerFactory
	at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:265)
	at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:125)
	at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:52)
	at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:34)
	at br.com.modelo.model.Teste.main(Teste.java:13)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
	at org.hibernate.ejb.packaging.PersistenceXmlLoader.loadURL(PersistenceXmlLoader.java:70)
	at org.hibernate.ejb.packaging.PersistenceXmlLoader.deploy(PersistenceXmlLoader.java:89)
	at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.configure(Ejb3Configuration.java:222)
	... 4 more

-- esta no direório META-INF

<persistence version="1.0"
  xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
            http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd">
  
  <persistence-unit name="local" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
    <properties>
      <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect" />
      <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class"  value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
      <property name="hibernate.connection.url"     value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/local;create=true" />
      <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
      <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="root" />
       <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="root" />
      <!? Drop and re-create the database schema on startup ?>
      <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create" />
    </properties>
  </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

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import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.persistence.Persistence;

public class Teste {

	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("local");

	}

}
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