// even before the arguments from the command line are parsed.  Any exception
            // that would happen here should cause the build to fail at a later stage
            // (when actually parsing the POM) and will lead to a better exception being
            // displayed to the user, so just bail out and return false.
        }
        return false;
    }

    }

    /**
     * Simply parse the given xml string.
     *
     * @param xml the input xml string
     * @return the parsed object
     * @throws XmlReaderException if an error occurs during the parsing
     * @see #toXmlString(Object)
     */
    public static Model fromXml(@Nonnull String xml) throws XmlReaderException {
        return new DefaultModelXmlFactory().fromXmlString(xml);
    }

    /**

    }

    /**
     * Simply parse the given xml string.
     *
     * @param xml the input xml string
     * @return the parsed object
     * @throws XmlReaderException if an error occurs during the parsing
     * @see #toXmlString(Object)
     */
    public static Model fromXml(@Nonnull String xml) throws XmlReaderException {
        return new DefaultModelXmlFactory().fromXmlString(xml);
    }

    /**

     *
     * @param version the version string to parse
     * @return the version parsed from the given string
     * @throws org.apache.maven.api.services.VersionParserException if the parsing failed
     * @see org.apache.maven.api.services.VersionParser#parseVersion(String)
     */
    @Nonnull
    Version parseVersion(@Nonnull String version);

    /**

    /**
     * Parse the model obtained previously by a previous call to {@link #locate(Path)}.
     *
     * @param source the source to parse, never {@code null}
     * @param options possible parsing options, may be {@code null}
     * @return the parsed {@link Model}, never {@code null}
     * @throws ModelParserException if the model cannot be parsed
     */
    @Nonnull

    }

    /**
     * Simply parse the given xml string.
     *
     * @param xml the input xml string
     * @return the parsed object
     * @throws XmlReaderException if an error occurs during the parsing
     * @see #toXmlString(Object)
     */
    public static PluginDescriptor fromXml(@Nonnull String xml) throws XmlReaderException {
        return new DefaultPluginXmlFactory().fromXmlString(xml);
    }

            PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor = null;
            if (plugin.isExtensions() && !artifacts.isEmpty()) {
                // ignore plugin descriptor parsing errors at this point
                // these errors will reported during calculation of project build execution plan
                try {
                    pluginDescriptor = extractPluginDescriptor(artifacts.get(0), plugin);

    /**
     * Simply parse the given xml string.
     *
     * @param xml the input xml string
     * @return the parsed object
     * @throws XmlReaderException if an error occurs during the parsing
     * @see #toXmlString(Object)
     */
    @Nonnull
    default T fromXmlString(@Nonnull String xml) throws XmlReaderException {
        return read(new StringReader(xml));
    }

    /**

        addZeroTokens(valueTokens, 3);
        addZeroTokens(rangeValueTokens, 3);

        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
            int x = Integer.parseInt(valueTokens.get(i));
            int y = Integer.parseInt(rangeValueTokens.get(i));
            if (x < y) {
                return -1;
            } else if (x > y) {
                return 1;
            }
        }

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