There's supposed to be a variable declaration at the top of the
velocity file to define the dollar variable to '$'. It's not automatic
from what I remember, so copy/paste from another .vm file. :)
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 at 06:51, Volkan Yazıcı <volkan.yaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> json-template-layout.adoc.vm (in both release-2.x and master branches) gets
> processed in such a way that dollar ($) characters are not properly
> handled. That is, after `./mvnw site`, json-template-layout.html still
> contains "${dollar}" snippets.
>
> Note that there are various usages of dollar ($) character in the file.
> Some in the code snippets, some in the paragraphs, etc. In particular, in
> the following paragraph:
>
> Yes, link:lookups.html[lookups] (e.g., `${dollar}{java:version}`,
> `${dollar}{env:USER}`, `${dollar}{date:MM-dd-yyyy}`) are supported in string
> literals of templates. Though note that they are not garbage-free.
>
> ${dollar} literals converted to HTML as is. If I replace them with a single
> dollar ($) character, this time I get the following error during
> compilation:
>
> [*ERROR*] Failed to execute goal
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.8.2:site *(default-site)*
> on project log4j: *Error parsing
> src/site/asciidoc/manual/json-template-layout.adoc.vm as a Velocity
> template: Encountered ":version}`,\n`" at
> /home/vy/Projects/log4j/2/src/site/asciidoc/manual/json-template-layout.adoc.vm[line
> 1236, column 47]*
>
> Does anybody have an idea on how to fix this, please?
>
> Kind regards.
