[Maven-plugins-developer] proposed patch for maven-news-plugin

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I would like to propose a few modifications to the maven-news-plugin 
that was submitted recently by Morten Kristiansen. These modifications 
make the plugin more flexible for the user.

My motivations for these changes can be seen on this web page (which was 
already generated by the new version of the plugin):
http://www.triumf.ca/people/theussl/JaxoDraw/Web/news-report.html

The changes are:

* introduced a maven.news.header property (Default="News") that can be 
overridden by the user (there should be no hard-coded strings in .jsl 
files).

* replaced the "header" and "date" tags by just one "name" tag. This 
allows the user to choose the format of the headers (I just wanted the 
date without a text, others might prefer the date before the text, with 
a different separator, etc). Note also that the xdoc plugin generates 
id's for each sub/section from its "name" tag, which makes it possible 
to link to a single news entry from other source documents, see eg the 
homepage of my web page above.

* add the possibility to include (optionally) a section (or whatever) 
above/below the list of news entries. In my example above, this is a 
"Current Status" section.

* reorganized the structure of the news.xml source document like

So the source code for my web page above looks like that:

<body>

  <section name="Current Status (12.01.2005)">
     <p>
       We are currently waiting for feedback ...
     </p>
     ...
  </section>

  <news>
    <entry name="07.02.2005">
      <p>
        We have discovered quite a subtle bug ...
      </p>
    </entry>
    ...
  </news>

</body>

A patch for these issues is attached.

I think these are rather useful generalizations and I hope these changes 
will be applied before the plugin gets published.