diff --git a/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-cvs/pom.xml b/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-cvs/pom.xml
index 054a715..a3dfa5c 100644
--- a/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-cvs/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-cvs/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
   ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
   ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
   ~ distributed with this work for additional information
diff --git a/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-git/pom.xml b/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-git/pom.xml
index d80a6d8..d503a53 100644
--- a/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-git/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-git/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
   ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
   ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
   ~ distributed with this work for additional information
diff --git a/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-standard/pom.xml b/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-standard/pom.xml
index 0cef4c7..875c160 100644
--- a/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-standard/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-standard/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
   ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
   ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
   ~ distributed with this work for additional information
diff --git a/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-svn/pom.xml b/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-svn/pom.xml
index 987bfe7..0baa92d 100644
--- a/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-svn/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-scm-providers/maven-scm-providers-svn/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
   ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
   ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
   ~ distributed with this work for additional information
diff --git a/maven-scm-providers/pom.xml b/maven-scm-providers/pom.xml
index 31e41d9..9b4058f 100644
--- a/maven-scm-providers/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-scm-providers/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
   ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
   ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
   ~ distributed with this work for additional information