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+<?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>com.baeldung.examples.smooks</groupId>
+    <artifactId>smooks</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <artifactId>parent-modules</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.milyn</groupId>
+            <artifactId>milyn-smooks-all</artifactId>
+            <version>1.7.0</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <name>smooks</name>
+</project>