jbi-maven-plugin does not process a jbi-services.xml file that has a comment node as the first root node

The jbi-maven-plugin is supposed to generate a jbi.xml file by analyzing a jbi-services.xml if one is present. If the structure of the file does not have the <services> node as the first child node, then the analysis fails and no service details are discovered.

In my file, we add a comment node before the services node, and that breaks the file analysis.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<!--
========================================================================
Some Copyright and description text
========================================================================
-->
<services xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jbi"
xmlns:wf="http://www.novell.com/provisioning/service">
<provides service-name="wf:ProvisioningService"
interface-name="wf:Provisioning"
endpoint-name="WFServiceEngine_JBIPort" />
</services>