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Emmanuel Bourg commented on CONFIGURATION-477: ---------------------------------------------- The specification I used to implement it didn't mention that comments were allowed. http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/Reference/NSPropertyList.html I checked the plist parser in the OpenStep code and it does indeed skip C-style comments (both block comments and line comments): {code:java} /* * Property list parsing - skip whitespace keeping count of lines and * regarding objective-c style comments as whitespace. * Returns YES if there is any non-whitespace text remaining. */ static BOOL skipSpace(pldata *pld) { unsigned char c; while (pld->pos < pld->end) { c = pld->ptr[pld->pos]; if (GS_IS_WHITESPACE(c) == NO) { if (c == '/' && pld->pos < pld->end - 1) { /* * Check for comments beginning '/' followed by '/' or '*' */ if (pld->ptr[pld->pos + 1] == '/') { pld->pos += 2; while (pld->pos < pld->end) {code} > PropertyListConfiguration cannot deal with comments > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CONFIGURATION-477 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-477 > Project: Commons Configuration > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Format > Affects Versions: 1.7 > Reporter: Oliver Heger > > According to http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/PlistSpec a plist file > can contain C-style comments. These are currently not recognized by > {{PropertyListConfiguration}}. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira