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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ work is stalled, since the xmlparser (hard-xml) does not allow xml entities that
 I don't even think it should support them and/or the regular java libs like jaxb would do that.
 So ... thinking of forking, but the code is really hard (declarative macro's) and not documented...
 
-(background, we need to parse maven xml to be able to use remote maven repositories)
+background: we need to parse maven xml to be able to use remote maven repositories.
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 An experimental build tool for Java taking inspiration from Cargo.