Comments can appear anywhere in the value of an email header. The initiator is an open paren, and the terminator a closed paren. They are meant only for human readers, thus they can be safely ignored by processors. These are equivalent:
MIME-Version: 1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0 (produced by MetaSend Vx.x)
MIME-Version: (produced by MetaSend Vx.x) 1.0
MIME-Version: 1.(produced by MetaSend Vx.x)0
I don't see comments used in too many headers, but they are used frequently in the Received header:
Received: from e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.109]) by
smtpksrv1.mitre.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655301F069B for
DFDL 1.0 has the idea of a floating element which when declared in a
sequence is allowed to appear anywhere in the sequence. See if that gets
you what you need. Spec section 14.4.
Regards
Steve Hanson
Architect, IBM Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
smh@uk.ibm.com
tel:+44-1962-815848
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