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Vincent Siveton closed MNG-2769.
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Assignee: Vincent Siveton
Resolution: Fixed
Fixed this page in r610540
> Use of POM namespace is confused and confusing in both the code and the
> documentation
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> Key: MNG-2769
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2769
> Project: Maven 2
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Artifacts and Repositories, Documentation: Guides,
> General, POM
> Affects Versions: 2.0.4
> Reporter: Nigel Magnay
> Assignee: Vincent Siveton
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: Documentation Deficit
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> Looking at the (very good) documentation on the POM at
> http://maven.apache.org/pom.html, the very first link is to the POM XSD, the
> schema definition for the XML. This XSD explicitly places POMs into the
> namespace targetNamespace="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0";.
> However, the immediately following examples of POMs do not place their
> examples inside this namespace (there should be an
> xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; at the root element).
> Taking a look through my local repository, it's all a bit hit-and-miss as to
> whether the defined POM is in the correct namespace or not.
> This is really annoying, because any tools I write that wish to use standard
> XML parsers to consume the POM need, in effect, to pass a namespace manager
> around, because if I wish to XPath to 'dependencies', I have to say 'is this
> //pom:dependencies, or is it a "defective" POM, where it's just
> //dependencies. This is bad if I'm using XSLT too (as one might to display a
> 'prettyprinted' POM).
> * The documentation should use the namespace
> * Maven should probably warn when it meets a POM that it's compiling from
> contains information in an invalid namespace.
> * Maven should re-namespace POMs to be in the 'right' namespace when copying
> to repositories (or perhaps modify any POM.xml that it sees which is
> incorrect automatically).
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