Parsing project and description tags

Hi,

I have just recently start using your plugin. I like it a lot, but there are two things that keep me from using it automatically. First, it also parses the project tag. Second, it parses the description tag. I feel both makes the pom file harder to read.

I know that it is possible to add ignore-sections, but I feel this clutters up the pom file.

Thanks for looking in to this. Alex

P.S. As an example: Project tag Given

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
                             http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

When the parser is run Then it should not turn the snippet into

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0                             http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

Tags with long lines. Given:

<description>
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse
    vehicula magna in lorem vestibulum lacinia. Nullam quis lobortis purus.
    Etiam ut finibus velit. Donec tempor egestas nisl volutpat pharetra.
</description>

When the parser is run Then it should not turn the snippet into

<description>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse
    vehicula magna in lorem vestibulum lacinia. Nullam quis lobortis purus.
    Etiam ut finibus velit. Donec tempor egestas nisl volutpat pharetra.</description>

[Ekryd]

Second problem: line breaks for project tag

I had a look into the XML parser and unfortunately the methods that print the attributes for an element are private, so I cannot add any custom behaviour to that tag. All output from the Sortpom plugin is built by the XML parser.

It’s a pity since I also get annoyed by the long first line.

[Ekryd]

The plugin does not modify the original file. The whole original file is input to the XML parser that creates a new file, so there is nothing left of the original data.