Using Schema Decoration 1.0

The Decoration XSD is located here.

Your favorite IDE probably supports XSD schema's for site.xml files. You need to specify the following:

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