I believe this behavior is correct. IIRC, XML does not allow double-dashes inside a comment.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm using Thrift in my Maven project, compiling my .thrift code to .java as > part of the generate-sources step. To do this, I use the maven antrun > plugin in my pom.xml, which executes a command line call to the thrift > executable, and sends it the appropriate argument flags, such as "-out" and > "--gen". > > However, when I comment out this plugin with the standard XML comment > syntax <!-- ... -->, Maven fails to parse the pom file. It doesn't like the > fact that the comment contains --gen, expecting the comment to end right > there. > > Can we please improve Maven's comment syntax parsing for pom.xml? > -- Cheers, Paul
