Cure for 'The string “--” is not permitted within comments.' exception?

Question

I\'m using Java 6. I have this dependency in my pom ...

            
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Answer 1

Your document must have at least an extra "-". Might be you have written:

<!--- --> or
<!--- ---> or
<!-- ---> etc.

Answer 2

By definition:

A comment starts and ends with "--", and does not contain any occurrence of "--".

So no, your XHTML is not well-formed because you can't use -- anywhere inside a comment. Can you replace it by something else? or maybe put a space in-between, like this: - -. There really isn't a clean solution to this problem, any alternatives involve messing around with placeholders, encodings, etc.