I have been following the following documentation https://www.odoo.com/documentation/master/howtos/themes.html on creating themes however I am running into an error upon installation of my theme which is:

"Assertion Error: Expectingelement openerp, got template line 1"

If you need a full trace let me know and I will add it onto a pastebin.

I understand this is due to the <openerp></openerp> tags however it still won't go away even though I have followed the documentation to the tee.

If anybody could help with this that would be absolutely fantastic as it is a project I'm working on for work. I'm running Odoo v8 from Branch 8.0 on github on a Debian Wheezy 64 bit vm.