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Marcin Wisnicki commented on MNG-6808:
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I've tried to track it down, it was hard since it doesn't exist outside maven.
I'd hardly call it a spec: it only exists in the source code imported from
xmlpull of
[Xpp3DomUtils|[https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/blob/master/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/Xpp3DomUtils.java]].
I'll ask there to add it.
Incidentally the only other instance of this syntax I was able to find was in
some xml library [https://github.com/atteo/xml-combiner] that actually supports
proposed syntax.
> Need ability to remove inherited plugin configuration
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-6808
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6808
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: POM
> Reporter: Marcin Wisnicki
> Priority: Minor
>
> There are cases where plugin configuration inherited from parent contains
> elements that you want removed rather than overridden.
>
> For example when developing Hippo CMS projects you are required to inherit
> their parent pom which provides among other things a Cargo configuration with
> <zipUrlInstaller>.
> If you would like to provide instead an <artifactInstaller> you need to
> remove <zipUrlInstaller> as they are mutually exclusive and build will fail
> if you don't.
> Unfortunately at the moment your only option is to replace entire
> configuration with {{<configuration combine.self="override">}} and copy a lot
> of configuration.
>
> It would be great if I could remove inherited element instead with something
> like:
> {code:java}
> <zipUrlInstaller combine.self="remove">{code}
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