} else {
                    return dominant;
                }
            }
        }
        return dominant;
    }

    /**
     * Merge two DOMs, with one having dominance in the case of collision. Merge mechanisms (vs. override for nodes, or
     * vs. append for children) is determined by attributes of the dominant root node.
     *
     * @see #CHILDREN_COMBINATION_MODE_ATTRIBUTE

        File f2 = getTestFile("src/test/resources/projects/grandchild-check/child/grandchild/pom.xml");

        getProject(f1);

        // it's the building of the grandchild project, having already cached the child project
        // (but not the parent project), which causes the problem.
        getProject(f2);
    }

    @Disabled("Maven 4 does not allow duplicate plugin declarations")
    @Test

        // snapshot timestamp, or some other timestamp later encoded into the metadata.
        // TODO this needs to be repeated here so the merging doesn't interfere with the written metadata
        //  - we'd be much better having a pristine input, and an ongoing metadata for merging instead

        Map<ArtifactRepository, Metadata> previousMetadata = new HashMap<>();
        ArtifactRepository selected = null;

  OTOH, all offline-mode checks can probably be run from Wagon-based APIs.

** Maven-SCM

  In all but trivial examples, SCM operations cannot complete without
  having access to the versioning server. Therefore, it is assumed that
  any SCM-related activity will be unavailable when m2 is in offline
  mode.

** Maven-Core

lawyer skilled in open source matters before removing the Classpath
Exception or making modifications to this package which may
subsequently be redistributed and/or involve the use of third party
software.

CLASSPATH EXCEPTION
Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
making a combined work based on this library.  Thus, the terms and

     * {@code <groupId>:<artifactId>[:<extension>[:<classifier>]]:<version>}.
     * <p>
     * Shortcut for {@code getService(ArtifactFactory.class).create(...)}.
     *
     * @param coordString the string having "standard" coordinate.
     * @return coordinate used to point to the artifact
     *
     * @see org.apache.maven.api.services.ArtifactCoordinateFactory#create(Session, String)
     */
    @Nonnull

            }
            return buf.toString();
        }
    }

    public ArtifactVersion matchVersion(List<ArtifactVersion> versions) {
        // TODO could be more efficient by sorting the list and then moving along the restrictions in order?

        ArtifactVersion matched = null;
        for (ArtifactVersion version : versions) {
            if (containsVersion(version)) {

     | or the command line, profiles have to have an ID that is unique.
     |
     | An encouraged best practice for profile identification is to use a consistent naming convention
     | for profiles, such as 'env-dev', 'env-test', 'env-production', 'user-jdcasey', 'user-brett', etc.
     | This will make it more intuitive to understand what the set of introduced profiles is attempting

         * direct dependencies from the request will be merged with the direct dependencies from the root dependency's
         * artifact descriptor, giving higher priority to the dependencies from the request.
         *
         * @param dependencies the direct dependencies, may be {@code null}
         * @return this request for chaining, never {@code null}
         */