I'm using Thrift in my Maven project, compiling my .thrift code to .java as part of the generate-sources step. To do this, I use the maven antrun plugin in my pom.xml, which executes a command line call to the thrift executable, and sends it the appropriate argument flags, such as "-out" and "--gen".
However, when I comment out this plugin with the standard XML comment syntax <!-- ... -->, Maven fails to parse the pom file. It doesn't like the fact that the comment contains --gen, expecting the comment to end right there. Can we please improve Maven's comment syntax parsing for pom.xml?
