Error: Maven: Non parseable POM ... expected START_TAG or END_TAG not TEXT

Question

I cannot figure this out for the life of me. Seems like not a hard issue at all.

POM:

Line underlined in red in the error line.

Answer 1

So I popped this into eclipse and it looks fine

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>CENSORED</groupId>
    <artifactId>NeoImport</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.neo4j.driver</groupId>
            <artifactId>neo4j-java-driver</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.3</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

In your screen capture your syntax highlight for the <?xml?> is off at the end. Do you happen to have a newline character before that very first line?

Or if you copied pasted it from somewhere else that formats the text differently than your IDE (i.e. UNIX/OSX vs Dos/Windows) then that may cause issues too.