title: Project build error: Non-parseable POM : expected START_TAG or END_TAG not TEXT (position: TEXT seen ...</dependency>\ufeff\r\n <d... @28:7)
body: <p>I am new to spark-scala, i am trying to write spark application in scala IDE, so i have created a maven project and trying to edit pom.xml file, when i add dependency to the pom.xml, i am getting below error</p>
  
  <pre><code>Project build error: Non-parseable POM : expected START_TAG or END_TAG not TEXT (position: TEXT seen ...&lt;/dependency&gt;\ufeff\r\n    &lt;d... @28:7)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the error appearing at one of dependency.</p>
  
  <p>Kindly help, thru old answers i didn't able to resolve.</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;com.orientit.spark.training&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;firstpgm&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt;
  
  &lt;name&gt;firstpgm&lt;/name&gt;
  &lt;url&gt;http://maven.apache.org&lt;/url&gt;
  
  &lt;properties&gt;
  &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
  &lt;/properties&gt;
  
  &lt;dependencies&gt;
  &lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.scala-lang&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;scala-library&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;2.10.4&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  &lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.spark&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;spark-core_2.10&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;1.5.2&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  &lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;3.8.1&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>