Inicio com hibernate annotations erro

Programação Java
#1

ola pessoal

bem estou tendo um erro aqui, e nao sei se estou pesquisando em lugares/modos errados, mas nao consegui arranjar uma solucao
hehe

obs: uso netbeans, uma classe simples para inserir dados no banco, o erro causado por nao “haver” uma comunicacao com o hibernate.properties/hibernate.cfg.xml

o log de erro:

22/09/2007 20:33:59 org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.Version <clinit>
INFO: Hibernate Annotations 3.3.0.GA
22/09/2007 20:33:59 org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: Hibernate 3.2.5
22/09/2007 20:33:59 org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: loaded properties from resource hibernate.properties: {hibernate.connection.username=root, hibernate.connection.autocommit=true , hibernate.connection.password=****, hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect, hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/cadastro, hibernate.bytecode.use_reflection_optimizer=false, hibernate.connection.driver_class=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver}
22/09/2007 20:33:59 org.hibernate.cfg.Environment buildBytecodeProvider
INFO: Bytecode provider name : cglib
22/09/2007 20:33:59 org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: using JDK 1.4 java.sql.Timestamp handling
22/09/2007 20:34:00 org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration configure
INFO: configuring from resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml
22/09/2007 20:34:00 org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration getConfigurationInputStream
INFO: Configuration resource: /hibernate.cfg.xml
22/09/2007 20:34:00 org.hibernate.util.XMLHelper$ErrorLogger error
SEVERE: Error parsing XML: /hibernate.cfg.xml(1) The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at util.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:18)
        at teste.HibernateTeste.main(HibernateTeste.java:16)
Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not parse configuration: /hibernate.cfg.xml
        at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1494)
        at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1428)
        at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1414)
        at util.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:12)
        ... 1 more
Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 1 of document  : The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed. Nested exception: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
        at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:482)
        at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1484)
        ... 4 more
Java Result: 1

se alguem puder me ajudar…
=]

#2

Opa,

coloque o código da classe hibernate factory e do hibernate config, se for o caso.

:okok:

#3