Hello,

I am trying to embed DTD Entities in the POM files. Is this supported? If
not, is there a plan to support this in 2.1 or future release?

Here is my simple example-

--- POM.XML ---
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE project [
  <!ENTITY SheBang SYSTEM 'file:MYDTD.XML'>
]>

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
  <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  &SheBang;
</project>
--- END (POM.XML) ---

--- MYDTD.XML ---
  <name>my-app</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
--- END (MYDTD.XML) ---



When I run mvn clean install, I get exception-

--- SNIP ---
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).


Project ID: unknown
POM Location: C:\Temp\wkspace\test\my-app\pom.xml

Reason: Parse error reading POM. Reason: could not resolve entity named
'SheBang' (position: END_TAG seen ...</version>\r\n  &SheBang;... @14:12) 
for project unknown at C:\Temp\wkspace\test\my-app\pom.xml


[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Parse error reading POM.
Reason: could not resolve entity named 'SheBang' (position: END_TAG seen
...</version>\r\n  &SheBang;... @14:12)  for project unknown at
C:\Temp\wkspace\test\my-app\pom.xml
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:378)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:290)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:125)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:280)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.InvalidProjectModelException: Parse
error reading POM. Reason: could not resolve entity named 'SheBang'
(position: END_TAG seen ...</version>\r\n  &SheBang;... @14:12)  for project
unknown at C:\Temp\wkspace\test\my-app\pom.xml
        at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1422)
        at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1379)
        at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:477)
        at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:200)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:553)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:467)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:364)
        ... 11 more
Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlPullParserException: could
not resolve entity named 'SheBang' (position: END_TAG seen ...</version>\r\n 
&SheBang;... @14:12) 
        at 
org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:1279)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1090)
        at
org.apache.maven.model.io.xpp3.MavenXpp3Reader.parseModel(MavenXpp3Reader.java:2394)
        at
org.apache.maven.model.io.xpp3.MavenXpp3Reader.read(MavenXpp3Reader.java:4422)
        at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1418)
        ... 17 more
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: < 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Nov 02 19:50:49 PDT 2007
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M
[INFO]
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--- SNIP ---
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