[MNG-4572] <modelVersion> element in pom does not allow whitespace around version string

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-alpha-3
• Component/s: POM
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: jonathan gold
• Created: 26/Feb/10 00:18
• Updated: 13/Nov/12 07:41
• Resolved: 26/Feb/10 13:40

Description

I'm using 2.2.x and was surprised to find that, while valid XML, the following are not valid in a pom.xml:

<modelVersion> 4.0.0 </modelVersion>

or

<modelVersion> 4.0.0 </modelVersion>

I had expected that the maven xml parser would be normalizing the whitespace, but looked in maven-2.2.x/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java and found this in readModel(), line 1609:

if ( modelSource.indexOf( "<modelVersion>" + MAVEN_MODEL_VERSION ) < 0 )

{ throw new InvalidProjectModelException( projectId, pomLocation, "Not a v" + MAVEN_MODEL_VERSION + " POM." ); }