Don't we need this for the maven-release-manager anyway once we start adding arbitrary stuff?
LieGrue, strub --- On Tue, 8/2/11, John Casey <jdca...@commonjava.org> wrote: > From: John Casey <jdca...@commonjava.org> > Subject: Re: POM reader that preserves CDATA? > To: "Maven Developers List" <dev@maven.apache.org> > Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 10:22 PM > > > On 8/2/11 6:10 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > > In general, you really can't expect to retain CDATA > unless you build a > > DOM tree, and maybe not then. It's a fundamental > principle of XML that > > CDATA isn't part of 'the infoset' -- the data that is > represented by > > the file. A parser is under no obligation to > faithfully report this > > stuff, so long as the right text ends up in the right > place. > > > > However, forget xpp3 and all that ancient lumber. Use > Woodstox, or the > > Xerces DOM, and you can probably find enough options > to ask it to do > > what you need. > > yeah, that's basically what I was afraid I'd be left > with...in other > words, no quick and easy solution, but basically a > reinvention of the > model reader with a lot of extras. > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:00 PM, John Casey<jdca...@commonjava.org> > wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm working on some tooling for $dayjob that needs > to manipulate POM files > >> according to certain rules. > >> > >> The problem I'm running into is that some of the > POMs it much manipulate > >> contain CDATA sections, comments, etc. Also, since > the modified POM often > >> will be used as the basis for a patch file, I'd > like to preserve as much of > >> the ordering and existing whitespace in the file > as possible, to minimize > >> the patchfile size. > >> > >> I'm currently using the JDom-driven, > Modello-generated writer, coupled with > >> the stock XPP3-driven reader (not the best, I > know). It's losing the CDATA > >> (big problem) and injecting ^M (wrong line ending, > little problem)... > >> > >> Does anyone have experience with this? Anyone > maybe have an advanced POM > >> reader/writer stashed somewhere that can preserve > CDATA and the like? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> -john > >> > >> -- > >> John Casey > >> Developer, PMC Chair - Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org) > >> Blog: http://www.johnofalltrades.name/ > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > -- > John Casey > Developer, PMC Chair - Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org) > Blog: http://www.johnofalltrades.name/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
