diff --git a/pmd-perl/pom.xml b/pmd-perl/pom.xml
index b2dd58dd36..c758392950 100644
--- a/pmd-perl/pom.xml
+++ b/pmd-perl/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>