diff --git a/xep-0026.xml b/xep-0026.xml
index c0ca5f1c..dcc2ad34 100644
--- a/xep-0026.xml
+++ b/xep-0026.xml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 		</p>
 		<example caption='Example message with locale set to German'>
 &lt;message to='friedrich@jabber.org' xml:lang='de-DE'&gt;
-  &lt;body'&gt;Ich bin ein Berliner!&lt;/body'&gt;
+  &lt;body&gt;Ich bin ein Berliner!&lt;/body&gt;
 &lt;/message&gt;  </example>
 		<p>
 			An xml:lang tag can be put onto any XML element; for the purposes of this document, however, we will limit its usage to the four central Jabber elements: &lt;stream/&gt;, &lt;message/&gt;, &lt;iq/&gt; and &lt;presence/&gt;.