Parsers and Writers for the (expired) Internet-Draft A Name-Value Language (ANVL). Use {@link org.archive.util.anvl.ANVLRecord} to create new instances of ANVL Records and for parsing.

## Implementation Details

The ANVL Internet-Draft of 14 February, 2005 is inspecific as to the definition of 'blank line' and 'newline'. This parser implementation assumes `CRNL`.

Says "An element consists of a label, a colon, and an optional value". Should that be: "An element consists of a label and an optional value, or a comment."

Specification is unclear regards CR or NL in label or comment (This implementation disallows CR or NL in labels but lets them pass in comments).

A grammar would help. Here is RFC822:

         field       =  field-name ":" [ field-body ] CRLF

         field-name  =  1*<any CHAR, excluding CTLs, SPACE, and ":">

         field-body  =  field-body-contents
                        [CRLF LWSP-char field-body]

         field-body-contents =
                       <the ASCII characters making up the field-body, as
                        defined in the following sections, and consisting
                        of combinations of atom, quoted-string, and
                        specials tokens, or else consisting of texts>