[MNG-4090] Allow attribute based configuration

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Chen
• Created: 16/Mar/09 12:51
• Updated: 16/Mar/09 12:59
• Resolved: 16/Mar/09 12:59

Description

Currently we do:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.5</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

It would reduce alot of verbosity in xml configurations if we could instead do:

        <dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" version="4.5" scope="test"/>

I understand that we are using xstream and it didn't support attribute based xml but now it does so it would be nice to add this feature.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MNG-3397 [RFC] change the POM to use attributes