linux registry (no, not that again!)

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Saturday, August 07, 2004 6:58 AM -0400 Steve Brenneis 
<sbrenneis at surry.net> wrote:

> Or, if you want to source environment, you could do something like:
>
> <environment>
>   <file mime-type='text/plain'> /etc/sysconfig/whatever </file>
>   <file mime-type='text/xml'> /etc/sysconfig/morestuff.xml </file>
> </environment>

I think his question was what to put in a shell script that would be able 
to source an XML file into the shell's variables and environment. Currently 
most initscript sysconfig files are just bash scriptlets that assign shell 
variables and are easily parsed with the bash dot (source) operator.