question: protected static void writeHeader ( XMLWriter writer ) { XmlWriterUtil . writeCommentLineBreak ( writer ) ; XmlWriterUtil . writeComment ( writer , "    " ) ; DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat ( "yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss" ) ; XmlWriterUtil . writeComment ( writer , "Generated by Maven Help Plugin on " + dateFormat . format ( new Date ( System . currentTimeMillis ( ) ) ) ) ; XmlWriterUtil . writeComment ( writer , "See: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-help-plugin/" ) ; XmlWriterUtil . writeComment ( writer , "    " ) ; XmlWriterUtil . writeCommentLineBreak ( writer ) ; XmlWriterUtil . writeLineBreak ( writer ) ; }
target:  method from org.apache.maven.plugins.help.AbstractEffectiveMojo Write comments in the Effective POM/settings header.