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Dimitri Alexeev commented on MNG-4572: -------------------------------------- Is there any chance to fix this also in the 2.2.x branch? > <modelVersion> element in pom does not allow whitespace around version string > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-4572 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4572 > Project: Maven 2 & 3 > Issue Type: Bug > Components: POM > Affects Versions: 2.2.1 > Reporter: jonathan gold > Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann > Fix For: 3.0-alpha-3 > > Attachments: pom.xml, t.txt > > > I'm using 2.2.x and was surprised to find that, while valid XML, the > following are not valid in a pom.xml: > <modelVersion> 4.0.0 </modelVersion> > or > <modelVersion> 4.0.0 </modelVersion> > I had expected that the maven xml parser would be normalizing the whitespace, > but looked in > maven-2.2.x/maven-project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/project/DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java > and found this in readModel(), line 1609: > if ( modelSource.indexOf( "<modelVersion>" + MAVEN_MODEL_VERSION ) < 0 ) { > throw new InvalidProjectModelException( projectId, pomLocation, "Not > a v" + MAVEN_MODEL_VERSION + " POM." ); } -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira