MPCHANGES-25: Validate changes.xml

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/maven-1/plugins/trunk@291220 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

changes/xdocs/changes.xml

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.6-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
+      <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPCHANGES-25">Validate <code>changes.xml</code>.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPCHANGES-15"> Add multiple due-to/due-to-email support.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="add" issue="MPCHANGES-16"> Add multiple issue support.</action>
       <action dev="ltheussl" type="fix" issue="MPCHANGES-24">The encoding of changes.xml is not preserved after <code>scm:prepare-release</code>.</action>

changes/xdocs/goals.xml

@@ -43,7 +43,15 @@
             project releases.
           </td>
         </tr>
-
+        <tr>
+          <td>changes:validate</td>
+          <td>
+            Validates the <code>changes.xml</code> file. Note that this validates
+            against the new form of the <code>action</code> element as described
+            <a href="index.html#alternative">here</a>, i.e., the description
+            of the change has to be contained in a <code>description</code> element.
+          </td>
+        </tr>
       </table>
     </section>
  </body>

changes/xdocs/index.xml

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 </document>
 ]]></source>     
 
-      <p>
+      <p><a name="alternative"/>
         An alternative form of the <code>&lt;action&gt;</code> element
         allows you to specify several issues and/or several due-to
         elements: