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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>