diff --git a/app/switch/resources/conf/autoload_configs/abstraction.conf.xml b/app/switch/resources/conf/autoload_configs/abstraction.conf.xml
index d4b1dfd274..b527ac233d 100644
--- a/app/switch/resources/conf/autoload_configs/abstraction.conf.xml
+++ b/app/switch/resources/conf/autoload_configs/abstraction.conf.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <configuration name="abstraction.conf" description="Abstraction">
 <apis>
-	<api name="user_name" description="Return Name for extension" syntax="<exten>" parse="(.*)" destination="user_data" argument="$1@default var effective_caller_id_name"/>
+	<api name="user_name" description="Return Name for extension" syntax="exten" parse="(.*)" destination="user_data" argument="$1@default var effective_caller_id_name"/>
 </apis>
 </configuration>