(moved discussion from ivy-user mailing-list to here) Xavier,
I already have a patch ready on my machine (it just needs some cleanup and junit testing). Shall I finish and commit it? I agree with you that the better solution would be that the maven people only post valid XML files into their repositories, but on the other hand, I think that we should try to make Ivy as tolerant as maven: if maven can parse it, Ivy should also be able to parse it too. Otherwise, people will get into trouble when having such kind of dependencies for which they don't have any control on the pom... and what with invalid XML's on public maven repositories outside the "control" of apache? Maarten ----- Original Message ---- From: Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:03:59 AM Subject: Re: Illegal XML in Maven POM's On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Maarten Coene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Please open a new Ivy JIRA issue. I don't think we should open an issue for that. Well, maybe we can open an issue for consistency, but mark it as invalid. Indeed I don't think accepting something which is not valid XML makes any sense, it's just too much work. And maven guys themselves agree that their poms should be valid xml, there's already been a discussion on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list about that. So I don't see much we can do except loby maven guys to make sure they publish only valid xml poms. Xavier > > > Maarten > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Hans Dockter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 4:02:09 PM > Subject: Illegal XML in Maven POM's > > Hi, > > Maven seems to generate illegal XML for its pom's. For example if the > developers have a special character in there name. > > Two examples: > > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/qdox/qdox/1.6/qdox-1.6.pom > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus/1.0.4/ > plexus-1.0.4.pom > > I have run lately a couple of times into problems with this. Maven > itself seems to be happy with that. Ivy definitely not: > > [ivy:retrieve] :::: ERRORS > [ivy:retrieve] The entity "oslash" was referenced, but not declared. > > I had no time to check the Maven Jira if this is a known bug. My > posting is just for pointing this out. I'm not sure how far Ivy wants > to go with the Maven warts reverse engineering ;) > > - Hans > > -- > Hans Dockter > Gradle Project lead > http://www.gradle.org > > > > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant BordeauxJUG co leader - http://www.bordeauxjug.org/ Blogger - http://xhab.blogspot.com/ Apache Ivy Creator - http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
