[MPH-40] help:effective-pom emits invalid XML to output file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Assignee: Siveton Vincent
• Reporter: Jürgen Hermann
• Created: 18/Apr/08 03:46
• Updated: 23/Aug/08 15:55
• Resolved: 23/Aug/08 15:55

Description

Currently, this fragile post-processing is needed to make the content in a file generated with -Doutput=... parseable:

<move overwrite="true" file="${deploy.effective.pom.xml.file}.tmp" tofile="${deploy.effective.pom.xml.file}">
<filterchain>
<replaceregex pattern="^(Created by" replace='<!-- \1' />
<replaceregex pattern="^<.xml .*>(<project>)" replace='--> \1' />
<replaceregex pattern="^*+$" replace='' />
</filterchain>
</move>

Solution: Either add XML comments in the generation markup, or only output the XML proper to the output file, leaving the text out of it.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MPH-41 help:effective-pom should optionally output an XML document wihout the non-XML header and footer