diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index c214aa5..c96e0e4 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -20,10 +20,12 @@
           <containsregex
               pattern="project_version=([0-9.]+)$"
               replace="\1" />
-            </tokenfilter>
+        </tokenfilter>
+	<ignoreblank />
+	<striplinebreaks />
       </filterchain>
     </loadfile>
-    <echo message="distversion : ${distversion}" />
+    <echo message="distversion : '${distversion}'" />
   </target>
 
   <target name="init">