Problem using Custom tag in JSP

Iam facing problem when i am deploying my files on j2ee 1.4 server it give following erroer::
my .tld file and jsp are given below
any body can help me;

mytaglib.tld file:
<<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE taglib
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//
DTD JSP Tag Library 1.1//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/
web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd">

<taglib>
<tlibversion>1.0</tlibversion>
<jspversion>1.1</jspversion>
<shortname>first</shortname>
<uri></uri>
<info>A simple tab library for the
examples</info>
<tag>
<name>hello</name>
<tagclass>tags.HelloTag</tagclass>
<bodycontent>empty</bodycontent>
<info>Say Hi</info>
</tag>
</taglib>

MY JSP file :::
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/mytaglib.tld"
prefix="first" %>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello Tag</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#ffffcc">
<B>My first tag prints</B>:
<first:hello/>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Error :::
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to initialize TldLocationsCache: XML parsing error on file /WEB-INF/mytaglib.tld: (line 1, col 2)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache.init(TldLocationsCache.java:218)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache.getLocation(TldLocationsCache.java:188)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.getTldLocation(JspCompilationContext.java:515)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseTaglibDirective(Parser.java:460)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:526)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1617)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:174)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:244)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:146)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:132)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:245)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:462)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:448)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:551)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:300)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:301)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:248)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:284)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:500)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:306)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:200)

XML parsing error on file /WEB-INF/mytaglib.tld: (line 1, col 2)

How much clearer can an error message be? It's saying it's unhappy at line 1 column 2. And if you look there you will see that you have an extra < character. Did you even bother to read the error message?

thanks for reply
I got it
could tell me why this error is comming in same code:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to initialize TldLocationsCache: XML parsing error on file /WEB-INF/mytaglib.tld