maven pom file has html code instead of xml
<p>I am running mvn install from the command line, and I get the following error...</p>

<pre><code>[ERROR] Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.6 or one   of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:jar:2.6: 1 problem was encountered while building the effective model
[ERROR] [FATAL] Non-parseable POM C:\Users\Gary\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-resources-plugin\2.6\maven-resources-plugin-2.6.pom: entity reference names can not start with character '&amp;' (position: START_TAG seen ...nction d(a){var c,d,e,f=b.createElement("canvas"),g=f.getContext&amp;&amp;... @14:89)  @ line 14, column 89
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<p>I decided to open the pom file for maven-resources-plugin:2.6 in my local maven repository, and this is what I discovered:</p>

<p><strong>maven-resources-plugin-2.6.pom</strong></p>

<pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
&lt;html lang="de-DE"&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Mein Block &amp;#8211; Ein weiterer WordPress-Blog&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta name='robots' content='noindex,follow' /&gt;
&lt;meta charset="UTF-8" /&gt;
&lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /&gt;
&lt;meta name="template" content="Ignite 1.60" /&gt;
&lt;meta name="generator" content="WordPress 4.5.3" /&gt;
&lt;link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Mein Block &amp;raquo; 
...
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<p>It's a german wordpress-blog file for some reason.</p>

<p>My settings.xml is the default file in both the .m2 directory and the conf directory.  I have also updated to the most recent version of Maven.</p>

<p>One more thing, I have noticed that may be helpful is a file in the same directory as the poms called _remote.repositories, which has the following content:</p>

<pre><code>#NOTE: This is an Aether internal implementation file, its format can be    changed without prior notice.
#Thu Jul 14 10:22:00 EDT 2016
maven-resources-plugin-2.6.pom&gt;release-repo1.php-maven.org=
maven-resources-plugin-2.6.pom&gt;central=
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<p>Can you please help me figure out why my project will not build correctly?  Thanks.</p>