Processing nftable rules without loading them into the kernel

[George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I got a rather interesting task: I need to check if a given set of rules 
on the disk is the same as loaded into the kernel.

The main problem is that nft list is quite different from the original 
config (ordering, comments, etc), so I wonder if there is a way to make 
nft just to read rules, process them and output back in the same format 
as it is from nft ruleset list. Is there a way to force nft to just 
'process' rules to stdout without loading them into the kernel?