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On 4/4/13 2:08 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> XML is no go for me, as it is not really easy to use in scripts.
> We would need to create a tool to parse it and then I'd much prefer to
> import my API for dealing with name/value pairs that could be used in so
> many more places.
>
Do you have a link to this format?

I'm looking at YAML and it's interesting, although I'm not sure if a 
more abbreviated format wouldn't be better.

What I'm currently using is like:

date|vfs.freebuffers:5000|vfs.highbuffers: 343433|...|


-Alfred