Details
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New Feature
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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1.0.7-core, 1.2.7-core
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None
Description
The maven-faces-plugin has two xsl files, transform.xsl and transform12.xsl. These files are used to build the final version of the faces-config.xml. Right now they are implemented to support a certain set of elements in the facet-extension and property-extension.
For example, the XSL code basically says, if there is an <mfp:required/> element under the <property-extension/>, then create a new element called <required/> and apply the templates to its guts.
This is a very inflexible design as for every new mfp:* property that an IDE adds support for, we have to update the XSL files and ship a new version. I would like to change this so that all mfp:* elements are automatically stripped of the namespace and copied over without filtering. I don't see any value in filtering these out in the plug-in.
Right now I'd like to add <mfp:hidden/> so that if component B extends component A, but does not want to make one of the properties a part of the public API, then it can hide an attribute or facet from the tag documentation.
I will wait for the standard 72 hours for negative feedback, and if I don't receive any I will update the XSL files to simply pass through all mfp:* elements without a white-list approach.