title: cvc-complex-type.2.3 : Element 'Project' cannot have character children
body: <p>I am trying to create a spring boot application, but I get some issue in my project.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;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"&gt;
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;io.javabrains.springbootquickstart&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;course-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;name&gt;Java Brains Course API&lt;/name&gt;
  
    &lt;parent&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;1.5.9.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/parent&gt;
  
  &lt;dependencies&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  
     &lt;properties&gt;&lt;java.version&gt; 1.8 &lt;/java.version&gt;&lt;/properties&gt;
  
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm getting this error in my pom.xml:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>cvc-complex-type.2.3 : Element 'project' cannot have character [Children], because the type's content type is element-only.</p>
  </blockquote>