[MNG-2255] Use a external XML Pull parser instead of plexus one

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: POM
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Carlos Sanchez Gonzalez
• Created: 29/Apr/06 02:01
• Updated: 06/Apr/15 01:16
• Resolved: 13/Dec/08 18:28

Description

To avoid maintaining the plexus XMLPullParser we should move to a standard implementation like StaX

As mentioned in DOXIA-60:

There's a performance white paper
http://java.sun.com/performance/reference/whitepapers/StAX-1_0.pdf

The best implementation seems to be http://woodstox.codehaus.org/

Another nice set of utilities at http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/StaxUtilsProject

The indentator could be used instead of the PrettyPrintXMLWriter

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-2593 Maven 2 stumbels upon non ASCII characters in the value of a <localRepository> value in the $HOME/.m2/settings.xml
• is related to: MNG-2362 Deployed POM is not valid XML
• is related to: MNG-2057 The Maven 2.0.2 XML parser fails to parse a UTF-8 POM that begins with the optional byte-order mark.
• is related to: MNG-2254 the encoding parameter in xml declaration of POM is ignored
• is related to: MNG-2818 maven 2 requires a UTF-8 locale to build properly
• is related to: MNG-4708 I am not able to add name space prefixes to pom.xml
• is related to: MNG-2769 Use of POM namespace is confused and confusing in both the code and the documentation
• relates to: MSHARED-255 create DomUtils, equivalent from Xpp3DomUtils but working on W3C DOM
• relates to: MPLUGIN-229 don't use Plexus' Xpp3 in generated HelpMojo to read XML files: XML parser in JDK is sufficient
• relates to: DOXIA-60 Use an external XML Pull parser instead of plexus one
• supercedes: MNG-2715 Maven does not comply to XML rules regarding prefixes.