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On 4/4/13 9:33 AM, Jos Backus wrote:
> Why not use YAML or JSON? Those formats sit nicely between CSV and 
> XML, and we already have libyaml in base in -current.
>
I'm very open to that.

We plan on open sourcing what we have now shortly.

I may have someone from the team look into adding YAML output to sysctl, 
mind you I haven't looked at the format yet, so we'll see how well it fits.

Thank you Jos.

-Alfred