Improve handling of relative paths with backslashes
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                 Key: MNG-4464
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4464
             Project: Maven 2
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: POM
    Affects Versions: 3.0-alpha-4, 2.2.1
         Environment: Unix, Mac
            Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
            Priority: Minor


Consider this snippet:
{code:xml}
<parent>
  <relativePath>..\pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>
{code}

Note in particular the backslash used in the path. While this path will be 
properly resolved on a Windows box, it will fail to resolve the local parent on 
a Unix/Mac box (as the backslash is not a separator but escape character here). 
This applies to other paths in the POM as well.

For platform-independent behavior, we should either encourage the user to use 
forward slashes (by means of validation warnings/errors) or have Maven convert 
the paths internally.

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