Verify parser will not alter custom fields during updates

[nicole@…]

Custom fields are needed to hold additional manually curated information, however it needs to be verified that running the parser for updates will not remove/alter the values in these fields.

If the parser will affect them, the parser needs to be changed to handle the presence of these custom fields.

[GaryJ]

From what I can see in the WP-Parser code, there are checks to see if an entry already exists for a documentable element. If so, then that entry is updated, including the meta data. Custom data using other keys are not touched, so as long as you're using a different key name to WP-Parser, existing additional data should stay intact.

[siobhan]

Parser will not overwrite custom fields. See: ​http://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-sfd&day=2014-05-20&sort=asc#m111864