TL;DR:
Add the XML syntax highlight (just like the xml tag) for the maven tag.
Apache Maven is a tool that is widely used by Java developers to package and distribute their applications. The Stack Overflow corresponding tag is maven and it has more than 39k questions with 5k followers.
A project built with this tool needs to add a file, called the POM file, which is actually an XML file. Maven also has a particular settings file that is also an XML file. This means that almost all Maven questions will include an XML file.
As of today, and if I'm not mistaken, this tag does not have any syntax highlighting. What I propose is to add an XML syntax highlighting to questions tagged Maven. This feature would be great in my opinion because:
- It is a lot easier to read and go through an XML file when it is properly syntax-highlighted.
- I see no reason to tag a Maven question with xml just to add syntax-highligthing because users following the XML tag won't be able to answer any questions. Furthermore, users posting Maven questions probably won't tag it xml.
- It is easy to implement.
- Right now, I have to edit practically all questions and add
<!-- language: lang-xml -->
to XML blocks, which is quite cumbersome (and I'm probably not the only one). - Apparently, the same was done for the ant tag, as its wiki mentions "Code Language (used for syntax highlighting): lang-xml".
<!-- language: lang-xml -->
before xml code blocks, for a super short term solution.