<nowiki>#</nowiki>lines starting with "#" are comments

<nowiki>#</nowiki>blank lines are ok 

<nowiki>#</nowiki>the first "real" line of the file must be of the following format:
<nowiki>#</nowiki><codingSchemeName>\t<codingSchemeId>\t<defaultLanguage>\t<formalName>[\t<version>][\t<source>][\t<description>][\t<copyright>]

colors2	1.2.4	en	colors coding scheme	1.1	Someone's Head	a simple example coding scheme using colors	This isn't worth copyrighting

<nowiki>#</nowiki>The rest of the file (for format B) should look like this:

1	Color	Holder of colors
	4	Red
	6	Green	The color Green
		7	Light Green
		8	Dark Green
	5	Blue
		8	Dark Green	The color dark green
	6	Green	A different color of green