ac> Yes, "ignore", not "strip out".  ;-)  I was refering to
 ac> nodelist parsing software ignoring new keywords it doesn't
 ac> recognise (instead of failing).  Segment merging software
 ac> shouldn't strip out anything unless it's been told to.

many understand "ignore" to mean completely and thus they ignore
those items when copying or modifying and subsequently those items are
ignored right out of the resultant processing...

methinks "ignored" is not the proper word to be used...

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