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diff --git a/smooks/pom.xml b/smooks/pom.xml
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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>