Issue while publishing Jacoco xml report to Sonar

SonarQube
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I used following command to gather coverage information in xml file -

java -javaagent:/home/user/jacoco-0.8.6/lib/jacocoagent.jar=destfile=/home/user/jacoco-coverage.xml,append=false,includes=com.myapp.* -jar myapplication.jar

This generates jacoco-coverage.xml file but it has contents like following everywhere -

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and now when I publish it to Sonar it shows code-coverage as 0 % even though xml file has non-zero size which indicates code was hit.

mvn sonar:sonar -Dsonar.coverage.jacoco.xmlReportPaths=/home/user/jacoco-coverage.xml -Dsonar.host.url=http://localhost:9000/sonarqube

Could you please help to understand if this is an issue while generating coverage in xml file or while publishing report to sonar?

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Jacoco generates a binary file, you need to convert it to xml with the report cli option.
https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/cli.html