Project build error: Non-parseable POM : expected START_TAG or END_TAG not TEXT (position: TEXT seen ...</dependency>\ufeff\r\n <d... #28:7) - maven

Question

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
Project build error: Non-parseable POM : expected START_TAG or END_TAG not TEXT (position: TEXT seen ...</dependency>\ufeff\r\n <d... #28:7)
the error appearing at one of dependency.
Kindly help, thru old answers i didn't able to resolve.
<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>com.orientit.spark.training</groupId>
<artifactId>firstpgm</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>firstpgm</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
<version>2.10.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-core_2.10</artifactId>
<version>1.5.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

Answer 1

The error indicates that your XML format is incorrect and thus cannot be parsed by the XML parser. You have to check your XML carefully for opening and closing tags. For some reason your closing tag is followed by the UTF-16 Byte Order Marker.
<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>com.orientit.spark.training</groupId>
<artifactId>firstpgm</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>firstpgm</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
<version>2.10.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-core_2.10</artifactId>
<version>1.5.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>