POM reference for <properties> is incomplete and misleading
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Key: MNGSITE-136
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-136
Project: Maven Project Web Site
Issue Type: Bug
Environment: Maven 2.2.1; RHEL 6; Java 1.6.0_24
Reporter: David Biesack
Priority: Minor
See
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAVADOC-303?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=264846#action_264846
The POM reference at http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Properties is misleading
- it does not document the syntax for <properties> but says "Maven properties
are value placeholder, like properties in Ant." so I mistakenly assumed Ant
syntax, and some examples on that page are in an <activation> element which use
<property>
<name>mavenVersion</name>
<value>2.0.3</value>
</property>
syntax, but this is misleading
Apparently, <properties> uses the syntax
<properties>
<some-property-name>some-property-value</some-property-name>
<another-property-name>another-property-value</another-property-name>
</properties>
but the reference doc does not state this clearly, only showing
<properties>...</properties>
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