* @param dominant The dominant DOM into which the recessive value/attributes/children will be merged
     * @param recessive The recessive DOM, which will be merged into the dominant DOM
     * @return merged DOM
     */
    public static XmlNode merge(XmlNode dominant, XmlNode recessive) {
        return merge(dominant, recessive, null);
    }

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    }

    /**
     * Merges the {@code source} location into the {@code target} location.
     *
     * @param target the target location
     * @param source the source location
     * @param sourceDominant the boolean indicating of {@code source} is dominant compared to {@code target}
     * @return the merged location
     */

    @Nullable
    Object getInputLocation();

    default XmlNode merge(@Nullable XmlNode source) {
        return merge(source, (Boolean) null);
    }

    XmlNode merge(@Nullable XmlNode source, @Nullable Boolean childMergeOverride);

    /**
     * Merge recessive into dominant and return either {@code dominant}
     * with merged information or a clone of {@code recessive} if
     * {@code dominant} is {@code null}.

        Model source = Model.newBuilder().artifactId("SOURCE").build();

        Model merged = mavenMerger.merge(target, source, true, null);
        assertThat(merged.getArtifactId(), is("SOURCE"));

        merged = mavenMerger.merge(target, source, false, null);
        assertThat(merged.getArtifactId(), is("TARGET"));
    }

    @Test
    void mergeSameContributors() {
        Contributor contributor =

        }

        return new InputLocation(-1, -1, InputSource.merge(source.getSource(), target.getSource()), locations);
    } // -- InputLocation merge( InputLocation, InputLocation, boolean )

    /**
     * Merges the {@code source} location into the {@code target} location.
     * This method is used when the locations refer to lists and also merges the indices.
     *
     * @param target the target location

 *
 */
public interface ProfileInjector {

    /**
     * Merges values from the specified profile into the given model. Implementations are expected to keep the profile
     * and model completely decoupled by injecting deep copies rather than the original objects from the profile.
     *
     * @param model The model into which to merge the values defined by the profile, must not be <code>null</code>.

class MavenToolchainMergerTest {
    private MavenToolchainMerger merger = new MavenToolchainMerger();

    private DefaultToolchainsReader reader = new DefaultToolchainsReader();

    @Test
    void testMergeNulls() {
        merger.merge(null, null, null);

        PersistedToolchains pt = new PersistedToolchains();
        merger.merge(pt, null, null);
        merger.merge(null, pt, null);
    }

    @Test

        repositoryEventDispatcher.dispatch(event.build());
    }

    private void merge(
            Artifact artifact, Map<String, VersionInfo> infos, Versioning versioning, ArtifactRepository repository) {
        if (versioning.getRelease() != null && !versioning.getRelease().isEmpty()) {
            merge(RELEASE, infos, versioning.getLastUpdated(), versioning.getRelease(), repository);
        }

     *
     * @return the filename
     */
    String getRemoteFilename();

    /**
     * Merge a new metadata set into this piece of metadata.
     * TODO this should only be needed on the repository metadata {@link org.apache.maven.artifact.metadata.ArtifactMetadata}
     *
     * @param metadata the new metadata
     */
    void merge(ArtifactMetadata metadata);

    /**
     * Store the metadata in the local repository.

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/**
 * POM merger.
 */