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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- SNIP --- -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Embedding-DTD-entities-in-POM-files-tf4741736s177.html#a13559471 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]