clustering services IT test is not working

Seeing this error on my mac osx laptop.

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T E S T S
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Running org.opendaylight.controller.clustering.services_implementation.internal.ClusteringServicesIT
[Fatal Error] :2:6: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
[Fatal Error] :2:6: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 2, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 1.109 sec <<< FAILURE! - in org.opendaylight.controller.clustering.services_implementation.internal.ClusteringServicesIT
clusterTest(org.opendaylight.controller.clustering.services_implementation.internal.ClusteringServicesIT) Time elapsed: 0.455 sec <<< ERROR!
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:251)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:300)
at org.ops4j.util.xml.XmlUtils.parseDoc(XmlUtils.java:77)
at org.ops4j.pax.url.maven.commons.MavenSettingsImpl.readSettings(MavenSettingsImpl.java:404)
at org.ops4j.pax.url.maven.commons.MavenSettingsImpl.getProxySettings(MavenSettingsImpl.java:471)

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