diff --git a/src/switch_xml.c b/src/switch_xml.c
index eb691f4575..3ed3dcb7ef 100644
--- a/src/switch_xml.c
+++ b/src/switch_xml.c
@@ -1288,7 +1288,7 @@ static int preprocess(const char *cwd, const char *file, int write_fd, int rleve
 		line++;
 		
 		if (err && stderr) {
-			fprintf(stderr, "Error [%s] in line %s line %d\n", err, file, line);
+			fprintf(stderr, "Error [%s] in file %s line %d\n", err, file, line);
 		}
 
 		/* we ignore <include> or </include> for the sake of validators as well as <?xml version="1.0"?> type stuff */