diff --git a/share/xml/events2017.xml b/share/xml/events2017.xml
index 8778c611c0..d3210798c9 100644
--- a/share/xml/events2017.xml
+++ b/share/xml/events2017.xml
@@ -35,30 +35,32 @@
       <site>Free University of Brussels, Solbosch Campus</site>
     </location>
 
-    <description>FOSDEM is an event centered on free and open-source software development.
-    As with many other communities, the BSDs feature an alloted room for giving talks at the event.
-    See schedule on the FOSDEM website for the talks held in the BSD Developer room. 
-    The FreeBSD Foundation will also be present to share information about the project.</description>
+    <description>FOSDEM is an event centered on free and open-source
+      software development.  As with many other communities, the BSDs
+      feature an alloted room for giving talks at the event.  See
+      schedule on the FOSDEM website for the talks held in the BSD
+      Developer room.  The FreeBSD Foundation will also be present to
+      share information about the project.</description>
   </event>
 
-  <event id="asiabsdcon-2017">$
-    <name>AsiaBSDCon 2017</name>$
-    <url>https://2017.asiabsdcon.org/</url>$
-    <startdate>$
-      <year>2017</year>$
-      <month>03</month>$
-      <day>09</day>$
-    </startdate>$
-    <enddate>$
-      <year>2017</year>$
-      <month>03</month>$
-      <day>12</day>$
-    </enddate>$
-    <location>$
-      <country code="JP">Japan</country>$
-      <city>Tokyo</city>$
-      <site>Tokyo University of Science</site>$
-    </location>$
+  <event id="asiabsdcon-2017">
+    <name>AsiaBSDCon 2017</name>
+    <url>https://2017.asiabsdcon.org/</url>
+    <startdate>
+      <year>2017</year>
+      <month>03</month>
+      <day>09</day>
+    </startdate>
+    <enddate>
+      <year>2017</year>
+      <month>03</month>
+      <day>12</day>
+    </enddate>
+    <location>
+      <country code="JP">Japan</country>
+      <city>Tokyo</city>
+      <site>Tokyo University of Science</site>
+    </location>
     <description>AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers
       on BSD based systems.  The conference is for anyone developing,
       deploying and using systems based on &os;, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
@@ -87,8 +89,8 @@
       <city>Ottawa</city>
       <site>University of Ottawa</site>
     </location>
-
-    <description>A four day BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada. BSDCan hosts
-    talks and tutorials on a range of topics based around the BSD family of operating systems.</description>
+    <description>A four day BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada.
+      BSDCan hosts talks and tutorials on a range of topics based
+      around the BSD family of operating systems.</description>
   </event>
 </events>