Diacritic Signs

Does RDF (or XML, I suppose) have a problem with diacritic signs?  The W3
RDF Validator chokes on the "é" in "République" in the RDF fragment below.

Error message is:

Exception parsing: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Stopping after fatal error: The
element type "locode:frenchFullName" must be terminated by the matching
end-tag "".

--- Stephen


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF
   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
   xmlns:locode="http://www.locode.org/schema-2003-v1#"
   xml:base="http://www.locode.org/instance-2003-v1.rdf">

<locode:Country rdf:ID="WF">
   <locode:alpha2Code>WF</locode:alpha2Code>
   <locode:alpha3Code>WLF</locode:alpha3Code>
   <locode:numeric3Code>876</locode:numeric3Code>
   <locode:englishShortName>WALLIS AND FUTUNA</locode:englishShortName>
   <locode:englishFullName></locode:englishFullName>
   <locode:frenchShortName>WALLIS ET FUTUNA</locode:frenchShortName>
   <locode:frenchFullName></locode:frenchFullName>
</locode:Country>

<locode:Country rdf:ID="YU">
   <locode:alpha2Code>YU</locode:alpha2Code>
   <locode:alpha3Code>YUG</locode:alpha3Code>
   <locode:numeric3Code>891</locode:numeric3Code>
   <locode:englishShortName>YUGOSLAVIA</locode:englishShortName>
   <locode:englishFullName>Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia</locode:englishFullName>
   <locode:frenchShortName>YOUGOSLAVIE</locode:frenchShortName>
   <locode:frenchFullName>République fédérale de
Yougoslavie</locode:frenchFullName>
</locode:Country>

</rdf:RDF>