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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>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
+    <artifactId>pmd-aggregate</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+    <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+    <name>PMD Aggregate Project</name>
+
+    <url>http://pmd.sourceforge.net/</url>
+
+    <modules>
+        <module>pmd</module>
+    </modules>
+</project>