Attributes with dots.

Hello,

in my maven pom.xml I have a lot of properties defined like this:
-------
    <properties>
        <prop>value</prop>
        <amazon.aws.sdk.version>1.10.27</amazon.aws.sdk.version>
        <asciidoctor.version>1.5.4-SNAPSHOT</asciidoctor.version>
        <asciidoctorj.diagram.version>1.3.1</asciidoctorj.diagram.version>
-------

Now I want to have access to these properties when building my documentation with the asciidoctor-maven-plugin. I managed to patch the plugin to pass these properties as attributes and sure enough {prop} gets replaced by value. However my problem is with attributes that contain dots  - for example {amazon.aws.sdk.version} is never replaced by 1.10.27.  I also tried setting an attribute in the header like this:

= Introduction
Petar Tahchiev
:doctype: book
:sectanchors:
:sectlinks:
:toclevels: 4
:source-highlighter: coderay
:icons: font
:last-update-label!:
:blah.blah: ../../../modules

The {blah.blah} is.....

but again {blah.blah} is never replaced. How can I overcome this?

Thank you.

As far as I know the AsciiDoc variables that are available and defined in the pom are set in:

build > plugins > plugin (node corresponding to asciidoctor-maven-plugin) > configuration > attributes (see Lines 47-49 of in the to-html example pom)
or
build > plugins > plugin (node corresponding to asciidoctor-maven-plugin) > executions > execution > configuration > attributes (see Lines 112-119 of in the to-html example pom)

Have you tried to write something like that?

<attributes>
    <blah.blah>${some.maven.property}</blah.blah>
    <!-- ... -->
</attributes>

No I haven't. But in my case I have more than 130 maven properties set (Plus the ones from spring-platform-bom which I'm extending). I don't want to have them duplicated in the bom and also in the maven-plugin declaration.

Keeping maven integration a apart, I have run some tests and it's clear that properties with dots are not recognized.
Other separators like '-' or '_' work, others like ' ', '\' don't.

Even when the documentation always uses '-', there's nothing about what formats are recognized and which aren't. And to tell the truth according to the code and my understanding of it, dots should work. So, untill Dan says another thing I would regard this as a bug, but maybe there's another reason why they do not work.

Thanks mojavelinux,

here's the pull-request:

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-maven-plugin/pull/192