Why am I getting Unknown error in line 1 of pom.xml?

Question

Getting unknown error at Line 1 in pom.xml in Eclipse IDE. It was working fine till yesterday, but all of a sudden after updating my project from master and aft

Answer 1

In my pom.xml file I had to downgrade the version from 2.1.6.RELEASE for spring-boot-starter-parent artifact to 2.1.4.RELEASE

        org.springframework.boot
        spring-boot-starter-parent
        2.1.6.RELEASE
         

to be changed to

        org.springframework.boot
        spring-boot-starter-parent
        2.1.4.RELEASE
         

And that weird Unknown error disappeared