Maven Non-parseable POM for spring-boot-dependencies

Question

Trying to setup an elementary Spring boot app, using Win10, Eclipse (Photon 4.8.0), maven 3.5.3 within Eclipse, and following this tutorial

The error is the following :

Non-parseable POM C:\\Users\\user\\.m2\\repository\\org\\springframework\\boot\\spring-boot-dependencies\\2.1.3.RELEASE\\spring-boot-dependencies-2.1.3.RELEASE.pom: in epilog non whitespace content is not allowed but got s (position: END_TAG seen ...</build>\\n</project>\\ns... @3189:2)

I've tried various suggestions such as clearing cache, checking the encoding, etc. but as a beginner I have no idea where to look at

pom.xml :

<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.myproject</groupId>
  <artifactId>myproject</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
</properties>

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.3.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>


<dependencies>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

</project>

Answer 1

in epilog non whitespace content is not allowed but got s (position: END_TAG seen ...</build>\\n</project>\\ns... @3189:2 :

You should re-check your pom (spring-boot-dependencies-2.1.3.RELEASE.pom), i think that you have the character 's' after the tag : </project>