Please upgrade to JDOM 1.1; current JDOM 1.0 contains a bug in parsing comments starting with hyphen -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MRELEASE-460 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-460 Project: Maven 2.x Release Plugin Issue Type: Bug Components: prepare Affects Versions: 2.0-beta-9 Reporter: Andrew Lynch The current maven release plugin fails if an XML comment started with three dashes, even though this is legal XML syntax. This is dues to a bug in JDOM, fixed in version 1.1 ( see http://jdom.markmail.org/message/b45honrv3crcmqux ) An example: <!---dependency> <groupId>com.p6spy</groupId> <artifactId>p6spy</artifactId> <version>1.3</version> </dependency--> Fails with the following error: [INFO] Transforming 'BGC Refund Reader Service'... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] The data "-dependency> <groupId>com.p6spy</groupId> <artifactId>p6spy</artifactId> <version>1.3</version> </dependency" is not legal for a JDOM comment: C omment data cannot start with a hyphen.. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace org.jdom.IllegalDataException: The data "-dependency> <groupId>com.p6spy</groupId> <artifactId>p6spy</artifactId> <version>1.3</version> </dependency" is not legal for a JDOM comment: C omment data cannot start with a hyphen.. at org.jdom.Comment.setText(Comment.java:120) at org.jdom.Comment.<init>(Comment.java:86) at org.jdom.DefaultJDOMFactory.comment(DefaultJDOMFactory.java:105) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira