linux registry (no, not that again!)

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:32 PM -0400 David Malcolm 
<dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:

> - Does ordering matter?  How is this expressed in the API?

Yep, an example would be iptables rules. It would be nice to have a 
representation that handles ordered hierarchical data with indirection (eg. 
for jumps to subchains). Maybe something like a dump of a Perl data 
structure. Or will XML do all that?