Fml processing can't handle comments or blank lines before the <?xml version 1.0> tag

Introducing the apache license at the top of the file causes an exception, even having a blank line will cause the same problem. In order to make this work, I had to do this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--

• Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
• or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
• distributed with this work for additional information
• regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
• to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
• "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
• with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
  *
• http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  *
• Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
• software distributed under the License is distributed on an
• "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
• KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
• specific language governing permissions and limitations
• under the License.
  *
  -->