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Clauses order OBO file header #56

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
The order of clauses in the header is not specified for the 'ontology' clause.

OBO-Edit seems to place it a the end of the header.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by HDie...@lbl.gov on 6 Oct 2011 at 10:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Specifying the order of clauses is a bad idea - it makes the format brittle. At 
most, one can give advice that tools that tools should consider ways of 
maintain stability in roundtrip, for instance by sorting.

Original comment by lori.f.r...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2011 at 4:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by HDie...@lbl.gov on 12 Jan 2012 at 11:21