maven 错误：元素依赖性不能有字符子级

我不确定发生了什么，但我的项目的POM不再有效。它抱怨依赖关系元素。是依赖关系不再存在吗？此错误是什么意思？需要明确的是，我没有改变POM，它只是现在不起作用。

确切的错误消息是 cvc-complex-type.2.3：元素“依赖项”不能有字符（子级），因为此类型的内容类型是仅元素的。

<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>com.medfusion</groupId>
  <artifactId>Estatements-core</artifactId>
  <version>14.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>

  <name>Estatements-core</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>
<build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.6</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>shade</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <transformers>
                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                  <mainClass>com.group.id.Launcher1</mainClass>
                </transformer>
              </transformers>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.2</version>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>nexus-qhg-dev</id>
        <name>Medfusion repo</name>
        <url>http://maven.qhg.local/nexus/content/groups/qhg-dev</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.intuit.health</groupId>
    <version>14.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version> 
    <artifactId>notification-reference</artifactId>    
  </dependency> 
  <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.intuit.health</groupId>
    <version>ihg-depot-trunk-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <artifactId>attachment-reference</artifactId>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.intuit.health</groupId>
    <version>ihg-depot-trunk-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <artifactId>eCommunication-core</artifactId>    
  </dependency> 
</dependencies>

</project>