[IVY-1214] Handle attributes in description subelements

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0-RC1
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Maarten Coene
• Reporter: Jean-Louis Boudart
• Created: 06/Aug/10 13:45
• Updated: 09/Aug/10 21:50
• Resolved: 09/Aug/10 21:50

Description

Description element in a ivy file is the only part that doesn't contains strong xsd validations. In other words we are able to put any sub elements.

Let's consider a simple use case where we want to have a short description containing a href link.

<description>
 This module is designed for .... and based on <a href="http://mysite/">an opensource library</a>
</description>

Unfortunately, current code base of XmlModuleDescriptorParser silently ignores attributes in description subelements.

        public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes)
                throws SAXException {
            try {
                if (state == State.DESCRIPTION) {
                    // make sure we don't interpret any tag while in description tag
                    buffer.append("<" + qName + ">");
                    return;
               }
            ...
       }