You say you do modification in the POM to add/remove dependencies & properties. Do you really need to modify the pom.xml of your project for that? You could also do those additions using a plugin/extension and work on the POM and just deploy a materialized pom.xml from the POM for publication purposes without having to touch the original pom.xml file.
Matthieu On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:13 PM Matthieu BROUILLARD <matth...@brouillard.fr> wrote: > @Marc Rohlfs : AFAIK if you do a modification in the POM (as project > object model) in memory (via a plugin probably) then the pom.xml file is > already behind you and comments are already lost during the loading phase > of the POM. Whatever the materialization of the POM you choose, comments > will be lost. > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 9:57 AM Oliver B. Fischer < > o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net> wrote: > >> I do it with the release tools for jQAssitant with XSLT like this >> >> https://github.com/buschmais/jqa-release-tool/blob/master/core/src/main/resources/xsl/update-version-property.xsl >> >> The Versions plugin does it via Stax. >> >> Best, >> >> Oliver >> >> Am 29.11.18 um 17:11 schrieb Marc Rohlfs: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > is there a way to rewrite pom.xml files without loosing formatting, >> > ordering and comments? >> > >> > We need to (programmatically) do several changes on Maven POMs, e.g. >> adding >> > and removing dependencies and properties. Currently we're using >> > the MavenXpp3Reader and MavenXpp3Writer classes to read and write the >> > pom.xml files, but in the output files, all comments are removed, the >> XML >> > nodes are reordered and formatting (indentations, empty lines) is lost. >> > Does anybody know a way how to read and write POM files without loosing >> > formatting ordering and comments? >> > >> > Best regards >> > Marc >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> >>
