It is not required to use the Doctypes Maven Plugin to define your projects. Since there are a number of constraints to obey, it is usually recommended. In case you are not dependent on the extra metadata, a third party tool to define your blueprints is a valid choice. There third-party tools often make it very easy even for team members without extensive coding experience to define their own blueprints. What does the extra metadata provide? It allows to autocomplete certain parameters in macro editor or conduct ancestor searches. While these are cool features they are not necessary for the majority of use cases. |