Depending on what the directory represents ("groupId", "groupId/artifactId" or "groupId/artifactId/version"),
 the Maven Repository Metadata file contains 3 different sets of metadata:

 [[1]] in a "groupId" directory: a "groupId" directory may contain Maven plugins artifacts, which are described in metadata's <<<plugins>>> element,

 [[2]] in a "groupId/artifactId" directory: metadata describes <<<groupId>>>, <<<artifactId>>> and <<<versioning>>> element that

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
      <artifactId>failureaccess</artifactId>
      <version>${failureaccess.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
      <artifactId>listenablefuture</artifactId>
      <version>${listenablefuture.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.jspecify</groupId>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
      <artifactId>failureaccess</artifactId>
      <version>${failureaccess.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
      <artifactId>listenablefuture</artifactId>
      <version>${listenablefuture.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.jspecify</groupId>

<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>maven-test</groupId>
  <artifactId>scope-default</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <dependencies>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>maven-test-default</groupId>
      <artifactId>scope-default</artifactId>
      <version>1.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>maven-test-default</groupId>
      <artifactId>scope-test</artifactId>

<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>maven-test</groupId>
  <artifactId>scope-test</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <dependencies>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>maven-test-test</groupId>
      <artifactId>scope-default</artifactId>
      <version>1.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>maven-test-test</groupId>
      <artifactId>scope-test</artifactId>

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<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <artifactId>aid</artifactId>
  <groupId>gid</groupId>
  <version>0.1</version>
  <packaging>pom</packaging>

  <build>
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>build</groupId>
          <artifactId>managed-plugin</artifactId>
          <executions>
            <execution>

<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>maven-test</groupId>
  <artifactId>t09-b</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0</version>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>maven-test</groupId>
      <artifactId>t09-c</artifactId>
      <version>1.0</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>maven-test</groupId>
  <artifactId>t05-c</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>maven-test</groupId>
      <artifactId>t05-d</artifactId>
      <version>1.1</version>
      <type>jar</type>
      <scope>compile</scope>
      <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>maven-test</groupId>
  <artifactId>t08-c</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>maven-test</groupId>
      <artifactId>t08-d</artifactId>
      <version>1.1</version>
      <type>jar</type>
      <scope>compile</scope>
      <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-class-loader</artifactId>
          <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
          <dependencies>
            <dependency>
              <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3906</groupId>
              <artifactId>e</artifactId>
              <version>0.1</version>