From 69b3b9bdacf30018b17fa9289d1e8d49c8f77037 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Siveton <vsiveton@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:56:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] o using PluginUtils.element()

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugin-tools/trunk@629080 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java     | 16 +++++-----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java
index 1421e79..3ec1e67 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java
@@ -43,10 +43,13 @@ import java.util.Set;
  * @todo add example usage tag that can be shown in the doco
  * @todo need to add validation directives so that systems embedding maven2 can
  * get validation directives to help users in IDEs.
+ *
+ * @version $Id$
  */
 public class PluginDescriptorGenerator
     implements Generator
 {
+    /** {@inheritDoc} */
     public void execute( File destinationDirectory, PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor )
         throws IOException
     {
@@ -436,17 +439,8 @@ public class PluginDescriptorGenerator
         w.endElement();
     }
 
-    public void element( XMLWriter w, String name, String value )
+    private void element( XMLWriter w, String name, String value )
     {
-        w.startElement( name );
-
-        if ( value == null )
-        {
-            value = "";
-        }
-
-        w.writeText( value );
-
-        w.endElement();
+        PluginUtils.element( w, name, value );
     }
 }