From 3c618c233c0279b637a8d8394a974a4654b2a48b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sylwester Lachiewicz <slachiewicz@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 11:53:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Keep spotless away from the site sources

The markdown formatter runs flexmark over every *.md in the tree, including the
Doxia sources under src/site/markdown. Those pages open with a YAML front matter
block carrying the page title, author and date, and flexmark rewrites the fence
that closes it, so the metadata is lost and the page falls back to its first
heading for a title.

The excludes list also nested <excludes> inside itself where a single <exclude>
was meant.
---
 pom.xml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 954430cc4..d761a4e82 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -636,7 +636,10 @@ limitations under the License.
                 <include>**/*.md</include>
               </includes>
               <excludes>
-                <excludes>target/**</excludes>
+                <exclude>target/**</exclude>
+                <!-- site sources are Doxia input, not prose: flexmark rewrites the fence that closes
+                     a YAML front matter block, which loses the page's title, author and date -->
+                <exclude>**/src/site/markdown/**</exclude>
               </excludes>
               <flexmark />
             </markdown>