Introduction

From release 3.3.0 we can describe a complete site's layout using an xml file. Through site schema you can set root page (called home) its children's tree, add attachments and labels.
Use it is pretty straightforward, put your site.xml in ${basedir}/src/site/confluence folder and describe your preferred layout following the site schema.

Site template

To simplify understanding, below there is a simple site descriptor template

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<bsc:site
    xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
    xmlns:bsc='https://github.com/bsorrentino/maven-confluence-plugin'
    xsi:schemaLocation='https://github.com/bsorrentino/maven-confluence-plugin https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bsorrentino/maven-confluence-plugin/master/schemas/site-schema-3.4.0.xsd'>
    <home name="" uri="">

        <attachment name="" uri="" comment="" contentType="" version=""></attachment>
        <attachment name="" uri="" comment="" contentType="" version=""></attachment>

        <child name="" uri="">

          <attachment name="" uri="" comment="" contentType="" version=""></attachment>
          <attachment name="" uri="" comment="" contentType="" version=""></attachment>

            <child name="" uri="">
              <attachment name="" uri="" comment="" contentType="" version=""></attachment>
              <attachment name="" uri="" comment="" contentType="" version=""></attachment>
            </child>

            <child name="" uri=""></child>

       </child>

        <child name="" uri=""></child>

    </home>

    <label>label1</label>
    <label>label2</label>
    <label>label3</label>

</bsc:site>

Tags description

home

Attribute	Description	mandatory
uri	Content's source	no
name	Title of page	no (if uri is defined)

child

Attribute	Description	mandatory
uri	Content's source	no
name	Title of page	no (if uri is defined)

attachment

Attribute	Description	mandatory
uri	Content's source	no
name	Name of attachment	no (if uri is defined)
comment		no
contentType		yes
version		no

label

The content of label's tag is the label's value

Example

The example below is the site.xml used by plugin to document itself

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bsc:site
    xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
    xmlns:bsc='https://github.com/bsorrentino/maven-confluence-plugin'
    xsi:schemaLocation='https://github.com/bsorrentino/maven-confluence-plugin https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bsorrentino/maven-confluence-plugin/master/schemas/site-schema-3.4.0.xsd'>

    <home  uri="codehaus-home.confluence">

        <child name="Usage" uri="usage.confluence">
            <attachment name="gitlog-sample02.png" uri="../resources/images/gitlog-sample02.png" comment="gitlog to jira sample" contentType="image/png" version="1"></attachment>
        </child>

    </home>

    <label>maven</label>
    <label>confluence</label>
    <label>documentation</label>

</bsc:site>

Note:

The URI format

The uri attribute could refer to

File resource

We can refer to file in absolute way using file scheme (e.g. file:///Documents/page.confluence) or in relative way not using any scheme. In that case the path will be resolved starting from site home

Classpath resource

We can refer to resource using classpath schema. (e.g. classpath:page.confluence)

Network resource

We can refer to resource using http scheme. (e.g. http://www.thesite.com/page.confluence)

confluence-reporting-maven-plugin-5.0-rc1 - Use Site Definition