Flexible site descriptor inheritance
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Key: MSITE-558
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSITE-558
Project: Maven 2.x and 3.x Site Plugin
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: inheritance
Reporter: SebbASF
Inheritance as currently implemented means that <head> elements (for example)
are inherited,
Descendants can either accept the <head> or replace it completely with their
own version.
There's no concept of merging such elements, though this would be quite useful
on occasion.
My suggestion is to add an optional name (or id) to elements such as <head>,
<footer> (when implemented), <custom> etc.
Elements with the same name would replace their parent, as at present.
Elements with different names would be merged.
Since ordering is important for some elements, the name would be used to define
the order (i.e. alphabetical).
If not specified, the name would default to "main", which by happy co-incidence
is roughly in the middle of the alphabet.
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