Verification of your Blog for Google webmaster tools

Today I registered this blog in Google webmaster tools.
And I met one problem in verification:
If I put HTML verification code to the blogger template just after first head tag, I receive an error message from blogger.
The error message: We were unable to save your template
If I put this code before body tag verification was unsuccessful.
And I fixed it just adding "/" to the verification code in the end of string.
Example:
You received from google next HTML code for verification
(meta content="'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'" name="'verify-v1'">
Change this code to
(meta content="'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'" name="'verify-v1'/">

After that you can save your Template and verify your blog successfully.

Thanks,
Russian handicrafts