On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Laird Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm not [sure that] changing the way the trimming behaviour works now would >> be the wisest thing to do after operating that way for so long >> > > I agree, and it's why I'm still a little dopey and confused as to why this > problem would need to be addressed in some global fashion. I'm looking for > some kind of selective way (don't care what it is) for whitespace to be > preserved in pom.xml configuration elements (only).
Even that may cause problems, the behavior has been there so long you just have no way of telling. > The standards-compliant > way to do it without even having to touch CDATA is to honor the (hard-coded) > xml:space="preserve" attribute. Since Modello never outputs this attribute, > or reads it, anywhere, it would seem like honoring this attribute when it is > present would be the simplest way to fix this issue without affecting > anything about backwards compatibility. That would be a good way to do it. > > Regarding my plugin, I have a workaround; thanks. > Good good. > Best, > Laird > > -- > http://about.me/lairdnelson Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- We all have problems. How we deal with them is a measure of our worth. -- Unknown
