kbtrans error

1. Is this something easily fixed?

$ cd /home/tap/tap-0.72/Java/publishing
$ . java.env
$ export CLASSPATH=".;../tap.jar;../edu/stanford/TAP/"
$ java kbtrans -i tap.rdf -o tap.mcf
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: XML declaration may only begin entities.
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3182)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3170)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybePI(Parser2.java:966)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeMisc(Parser2.java:1092)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:487)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:305)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:442)

        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:281)
        at edu.stanford.TAP.XML_Parser.ParseFile(XML_Parser.java:204)
        at edu.stanford.TAP.Import_XML.LoadFile(Import_XML.java:396)
        at edu.stanford.TAP.Import_RDF.LoadFile(Import_RDF.java:82)
        at edu.stanford.TAP.Import_Guess.LoadFile(Import_Guess.java:146)
        at kbtrans.main(kbtrans.java:98)
$

2. I downloaded the file "tap.rdf" with your Perl program.  It begins

<!-- set kformat=rdf -->

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- TAP KB Fragment. Made available under the TAP KB Open License. Please
    see http://tap.stanford.edu/license.html -->
<rdf:RDF
    xmlns:thiskb=""
    xmlns:a="http://tap.stanford.edu/2002/05/GetDataSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
    xmlns:tap="http://tap.stanford.edu/kb/"
    xmlns:cdnow="http://localhost:8000/cgi-bin/cdnow.cgi/">
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="HockeyDigestMag">
    <rdf:type>SportMagazine</rdf:type>
  </rdf:Description>
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