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Add a link to the actual Maven versioning specification #750

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## Velocity uses # as a prefix for macros and ## as a prefix for comments
#set($h1 = '#')
#set($h2 = '##')
#set($h3 = '###')
#set($h4 = '####')

$h1 Version number rules
Version number rules
====================

$h2 Introduction
Introduction
------------

**Notice:** The limitations explained in this paragraph were true in Maven 2.x, but have been **fixed** in Maven 3.x (see
[Maven Versioning Wiki page](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVENOLD/Versioning) for more details)

The current implementation of
[DefaultArtifactVersion](https://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-artifact/xref/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/DefaultArtifactVersion.html)
in the core of Maven expects that version numbers will have a very specific format:
The current implementation of the
[Maven Version Order Specification](https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#version-order-specification) will have a very specific format:

` <MajorVersion [> . <MinorVersion [> . <IncrementalVersion ] ] [> - <BuildNumber | Qualifier ]> `

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The `versions-maven-plugin` will assume that all version numbers follow the `maven` scheme unless you tell
it otherwise.

$h2 Rules.xml
Rules.xml
---------

To specify the version schemes to use, you may define a [rule-set xml file](./rule.html), use the `ruleSet`
element in the `versions-maven-plugin` plugin configuration, or specify ignored versions via
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