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@@ -79,8 +79,9 @@ File `config.json`:
 ### /validate endpoint [POST]
 
 ```shell
-> curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @valid_xml_matches_xsd http://localhost:5005/validate
-> <ok/>
+curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @valid_xml_matches_xsd http://localhost:5005/validate
+
+<ok/>
 ```
 
 Alternative call with `wget`:
@@ -89,20 +90,23 @@ wget --post-file=example.xml --header="Content-Type:text/xml;" -q -O- http://loc
 ```
 
 ```shell
-> curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml?v=2.1.0" -d @no_valid_xml http://localhost:5005/validate
-> <error>unvalid xml data</error>
+curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml?v=2.1.0" -d @no_valid_xml http://localhost:5005/validate
+
+<error>unvalid xml data</error>
 ```
 
 ```shell
-> curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @valid_xml_but_dont_matches_xsd http://localhost:5005/validate
-> <error>verbose error message</error>
+curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @valid_xml_but_dont_matches_xsd http://localhost:5005/validate
+
+<error>verbose error message</error>
 ```
 
 Example:
 
 ```shell
-> curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @11044_17_DCC_v1.8.1_Au_with_error.xml http://localhost:5005/validate
-> <error>failed decoding 'A' with XsdAtomicBuiltin(name='xs:double'):
+curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d @11044_17_DCC_v1.8.1_Au_with_error.xml http://localhost:5005/validate
+
+<error>failed decoding 'A' with XsdAtomicBuiltin(name='xs:double'):
 
 Reason: could not convert string to float: 'A'
 
@@ -144,14 +148,15 @@ Path: /{https://intranet.ptb.de/fileadmin/dokumente/intranet/abteilungen/abteilu
 Returns the version of the validation server:
 
 ```shell
-> curl http://localhost:5005/version
-> <version>0.2.0</version>
+curl http://localhost:5005/version
+
+<version>0.2.0</version>
 ```
 
 ## Web interface
 
 ```
-http://127.0.0.1:5005/validation.html
+http://localhost:5005/validation.html
 ```
 
 A working  PTB internal Service: