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The Maven PMD plugin doesn’t support printing the XML into the logs. Instead print the generated target/pmd.xml file into the build log by a follow up final task:

#!/bin/bash
cat ./target/pmd.xml || echo "No PMD analytics generated"

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The Gradle PMD plugin doesn’t support printing the XML into the logs. Instead print the generated ./build/reports/pmd/main.xml file into the build log by a follow up final task:

#!/bin/bash
cat ./build/reports/pmd/main.xml || echo "No PMD analytics generated"

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Typically the build system tool generate a PMD report xml, and you can dump that to the console by a final task. For example:

#!/bin/bash
cat ./a-build-dir/pmd.xml || echo "No PMD analytics generated"

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