Error parsing lifecycle processing instructions
<p>Below is my pom.xml file. On the very first line,  I am getting an error of </p>

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  <p>Error parsing lifecycle processing instructions.</p>
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<p>I need help finding what caused the error.</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&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.example&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;demo&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt;

    &lt;name&gt;First&lt;/name&gt;
    &lt;description&gt;Demo project for Spring Boot&lt;/description&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;1.2.4.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;relativePath/&gt; &lt;!-- lookup parent from repository --&gt;
    &lt;/parent&gt;

    &lt;properties&gt;
        &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
        &lt;project.reporting.outputEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.reporting.outputEncoding&gt;
        &lt;java.version&gt;1.8&lt;/java.version&gt;
    &lt;/properties&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;build&gt;
        &lt;plugins&gt;
            &lt;plugin&gt;
                &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
                &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;/plugin&gt;
        &lt;/plugins&gt;
    &lt;/build&gt;

    &lt;repositories&gt;
        &lt;repository&gt;
            &lt;id&gt;spring-snapshots&lt;/id&gt;
            &lt;name&gt;Spring Snapshots&lt;/name&gt;
            &lt;url&gt;https://repo.spring.io/snapshot&lt;/url&gt;
            &lt;snapshots&gt;
                &lt;enabled&gt;true&lt;/enabled&gt;
            &lt;/snapshots&gt;
        &lt;/repository&gt;
        &lt;repository&gt;
            &lt;id&gt;spring-milestones&lt;/id&gt;
            &lt;name&gt;Spring Milestones&lt;/name&gt;
            &lt;url&gt;https://repo.spring.io/milestone&lt;/url&gt;
            &lt;snapshots&gt;
                &lt;enabled&gt;false&lt;/enabled&gt;
            &lt;/snapshots&gt;
        &lt;/repository&gt;
    &lt;/repositories&gt;
    &lt;pluginRepositories&gt;
        &lt;pluginRepository&gt;
            &lt;id&gt;spring-snapshots&lt;/id&gt;
            &lt;name&gt;Spring Snapshots&lt;/name&gt;
            &lt;url&gt;https://repo.spring.io/snapshot&lt;/url&gt;
            &lt;snapshots&gt;
                &lt;enabled&gt;true&lt;/enabled&gt;
            &lt;/snapshots&gt;
        &lt;/pluginRepository&gt;
        &lt;pluginRepository&gt;
            &lt;id&gt;spring-milestones&lt;/id&gt;
            &lt;name&gt;Spring Milestones&lt;/name&gt;
            &lt;url&gt;https://repo.spring.io/milestone&lt;/url&gt;
            &lt;snapshots&gt;
                &lt;enabled&gt;false&lt;/enabled&gt;
            &lt;/snapshots&gt;
        &lt;/pluginRepository&gt;
    &lt;/pluginRepositories&gt;

&lt;/project&gt;
</code></pre>