| org | the organization of the dependency module or artifact to exclude, or a regexp matching this organization | No, defaults to * | 
    | module | the name of the dependency module or the artifact to exclude, or a regexp matching this module name | No, defaults to * | 
    | artifact | the name of an artifact of the dependency module to add to the exclude list, or an expression matching this name (see matcher attribute below) | No, defaults to * | 
    | type | the type of the artifact of the dependency module to add to the exclude list, or a regexp matching this name | No, defaults to * | 
    | ext | the extension of the artifact of the dependency module to add to the exclude list, or an expression matching this name (see matcher attribute below) | No, defaults to type | 
    | matcher | the matcher to use to match the modules to excludes | No, defaults to exactOrRegexp in pre 1.3 ivy files, and exact in 1.3 and superior | 
    | conf | comma separated list of the master configurations in which this artifact should be included.
    '*' wildcard can be used to designate all configurations of this module | No, defaults to '*', unless nested conf are specified |