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Martin Kanters commented on MNG-7052:
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[~tibordigana] This decision was taken together with [~rfscholte] and 
[~mthmulders] almost two months ago I believe, so my memory might be a bit 
foggy. As far as I remember IDs in the POM are usually checked against the 
regex shown in the issue description, but the profile ID was never checked. 
This needed to be made consistent. I don't necessarily think the + sign should 
be a problem, as long as it is not the first characters. ('+' is currently the 
opposite character from the '-' character, which can be used to unselect 
profiles or projects). 

Personally I don't know whether the + can or should be added to the list. 
Perhaps Robert or Michael can give their take on this. I'm not sure what the 
impact could be.

> Do not allow symbols as first character of identifiers in the POM
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>
>                 Key: MNG-7052
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7052
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core
>            Reporter: Martin Kanters
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: up-for-grabs
>             Fix For: 4.0.x-candidate
>
>
> In the {{DefaultModelValidator}} we currently validate identifiers against 
> {{a-zA-Z0-9-_.}} 
> Since Maven also allows operators to be used against an identifier, this can 
> result in bugs or at least unexpected behavior for the user.
> The minus operator can be used to deactivate a certain profile, so an example 
> would be:
> - A project having a profile with the id {{-id-of-profile}}
> - A Maven invocation of {{mvn <goal> -P-id-of-profile}}.
> The release of Maven 4 is a nice opportunity to restrict the first character 
> of an id to be {{a-zA-Z0-9}} . The other characters may still consist of 
> those symbols.
> This should apply to all identifiers that we support. The methods that need 
> attention are:
> {{DefaultModelValidator#validateId}} and 
> {{DefaultModelValidator#validateIdWithWildcards}}.



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