Hi all, many thanks for Your suggestions. I already check the different plugin implementations (except tidy-maven-plugin) before writing my post - should have probably mentioned them in my post, I'm sorry. Unfortunately none of them really seems to help me with what I like/need to achieve, expect of the JDom parser approach that was implemented by Robert Scholte for the maven-release-plugin version 3.0 - which hasn't been continued nor released for 2 1/2 years now.
@Robert: I'd really like to pick up Your approach. Looks very useful to me, not only for the maven-release-plugin. If You don't mind, I'd invest a little time to transfer it to a new library and extend it for my use cases. @Anton: DecentXML is an interesting library, too. I'll surely remember this one. @Matthieu: Besides some other use cases, we basically need this for a migration of a very huge/complex project setup into a new project layout. For this, (re)calculate our projects (including dependencies, properties etc) and we need to continuously transfer changes between old and new project layout for a transition period. Best regards Marc On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 17:11, Marc Rohlfs <pomar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 >
