You can use the maven polyglot plugin [1] to write your POM in something other than XML. It's fairly new, but it's there. We use it in JRuby to write our POMs i

You can use the maven polyglot plugin [1] to write your POM in something other than XML. It's fairly new, but it's there. We use it in JRuby to write our POMs in Ruby. As an example of a loop: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/blob/8e29ae1302e7aa989b8808f7edf7228a27d29f1a/core/pom.rb#L263-L277 https://github.com/jruby/jruby/blob/8e29ae1302e7aa989b8808f7... [1] -- https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven