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+<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>de.ids_mannheim.korap.query</groupId>
+  <artifactId>xerialize</artifactId>
+  <version>0.0.1</version>
+  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+  <name>xerialize</name>
+  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+
+  <properties>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <version>3.8.1</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+    	<groupId>org.antlr</groupId>
+    	<artifactId>antlr4</artifactId>
+    	<version>4.1</version>
+    	<classifier>complete</classifier>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <sourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
+    <outputDirectory>${basedir}/bin</outputDirectory>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+	<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+	<version>2.3.2</version>
+	<configuration>
+	  <source>1.7</source>
+	  <target>1.7</target>
+	</configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>