diff --git a/SAS/XML_generator/src/xmlgen.py b/SAS/XML_generator/src/xmlgen.py
index 3f9ad5a976765ae39eed6684cc6bfd9a06dc57b7..f610f7f5ea452cda0f023761dfe20f34a9263089 100755
--- a/SAS/XML_generator/src/xmlgen.py
+++ b/SAS/XML_generator/src/xmlgen.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 # Last change by : $Author: renting $
 # Change date	   : $Date: 2016-05-18 11:47:57 +0200 (wo, 18 mei 2016) $
 
-VERSION = " 3.1.0"
+VERSION = "3.1.0"
 
 import sys, getopt, time
 from xml.sax.saxutils import escape as XMLescape