Generate HTML report with ANT

Hello,

Currently you generate a PMD report with ANT  like this :

<! -- define taskdef  -->

< taskdef name="pmd"  classname="com.adobe.ac.pmd.ant.FlexPmdAntTask"  classpath="${build.pmd.loc}/flex-pmd-ant-task-${flexpmd.version}.jar">
         < classpath>
             < path refid="flexpmd.base" />
             < pathelement  location="${build.pmd.loc}/commons-lang-2.4.jar" />
             < pathelement  location="${build.pmd.loc}/flex-pmd-core-${flexpmd.version}.jar" />
             < pathelement  location="${build.pmd.loc}/flex-pmd-ruleset-api-${flexpmd.version}.jar"  />
             < pathelement  location="${build.pmd.loc}/flex-pmd-ruleset-${flexpmd.version}.jar"  />
             < pathelement  location="${build.pmd.loc}/plexus-utils-1.0.2.jar" />
         < /classpath>
< /taskdef>

then generate XML  report like this :

< pmd  sourceDirectory="${src.loc}" outputDirectory="${report.loc}"  ruleSet="${build.pmd.loc}/rules.xml"/>

The  XML contains some file nodes :

< file  name="/Users/user/workspace/AS3_UTILS/src/utils/align/gridAlignSpaceNumber.as">
       < violation beginline="22" endline="22" begincolumn="0"  endcolumn="27" rule="adobe.ac.pmd.rules.naming.TooShortVariable"  ruleset="All Flex Rules" package="utils.align"  class="gridAlignSpaceNumber.as" externalInfoUrl="" priority="5">This  variable name is too short (3 characters minimum, but 1 actually).  Detects when a field, local, or parameter has a very short name<  /violation>

< /file>

The  message is in the text node  < violation>TEXT< /violation>

For  me, we miss an important part of the message : the portion of the "bad"  code.

It could be very usefull if PMD can generate  something like this :

< file  name="">
       < violation beginline="" endline="" begincolumn=""  endcolumn="" rule=""  ruleset="" package=""  class="gridAlignSpaceNumber.as" externalInfoUrl="" priority="">

        < description>TEXT< /description>

        < code><CDATA[MY CODE

MY CODE

MY CODE]>< /code>

    <  /violation>

< /file>

With this, we can  generate "full" HTML report with XSLT transform easily.

I  understand that it modify the standard XML schema of the output.

So,  perharps it could be an option like this :

< pmd fullDescription="true"  sourceDirectory="${src.loc}"  outputDirectory="${report.loc}"  ruleSet="${build.pmd.loc}/rules.xml"/>

What do you think ?

Thanks !