So, upon reflection.. forget about the tree.xml altogether. Here's a different idea - a slightly improved version of discinfo that uses key-value pairs, and *also* contains all the info I wanted to put in tree.xml: [wwoods@metroid os]$ cat .distinfo family: Fedora variant: Desktop version: 6.90 arch: i386 timestamp: 1170104239.562016 composeid: 20070129.1 disc: 2/3 packagedir: Fedora
Don't know if it would apply in this case, but a very easy format that that is a bit more flexible is the old "win.ini" format, where you have section headers, followed by key value pairs (samba uses this config format), such that if you wanted to namespace things a bit you could. That said, name spacing can be achieved in the variable name itself. Cheers...james
