Thanks for the clarification. Apologies to Maven, curses to W3C. I guess I'll use a silly -- instead of -- for commented command line flags.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Stuart McCulloch <[email protected]>wrote: > On 18 Sep 2013, at 15:09, Paul Benedict wrote: > > > I believe this behavior is correct. IIRC, XML does not allow > double-dashes > > inside a comment. > > Specifically http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-comments > > "For compatibility, the string " -- " (double-hyphen) must not > occur within comments." > > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
