diff --git a/lib/tests/sample_questions_wrong.xml b/lib/tests/sample_questions_wrong.xml
index 145d0a9a4a6..e62f4ca9db5 100644
--- a/lib/tests/sample_questions_wrong.xml
+++ b/lib/tests/sample_questions_wrong.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
   <question type="category">
     <category>
         <text>$course$/Default for Scratch/input_samples</text>
-
     </category>
   </question>
 
@@ -15,7 +14,6 @@
     </name>
     <questiontext format="html">
       <text><![CDATA[<p>Type in {@ta@}.<br></p><p>[[input:ans1]]</p><div>[[validation:ans1]]</div>]]></text>
- 
       <text></text>
     </generalfeedback>
     <defaultgrade>1.0000000</defaultgrade>
diff --git a/lib/tests/xmlize_test.php b/lib/tests/xmlize_test.php
index e4e1f80a448..f6dceb49ab3 100644
--- a/lib/tests/xmlize_test.php
+++ b/lib/tests/xmlize_test.php
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class core_xmlize_testcase extends basic_testcase {
     public function test_xmlimport_of_wrong_file() {
         $xml = file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/sample_questions_wrong.xml');
         $this->expectException('xml_format_exception');
-        $this->expectExceptionMessage('Error parsing XML: Mismatched tag at line 20, char 23');
+        $this->expectExceptionMessage('Error parsing XML: Mismatched tag at line 18, char 23');
         $xmlnew = xmlize($xml, 1, "UTF-8", true);
     }
 }