Using the XML Schema Changes 1.0.0

The Changes XSD is located here.

Your favorite IDE probably supports validation and/or syntax highlighting for XML files by using XSD schemas. For this to work you need to specify the schema in your changes.xml file:

<document xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/changes/1.0.0"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/changes/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/changes-1.0.0.xsd">
...
</document>