XML Parsing

Problem statements:

- 1) AI's multiple parsers present unneeded complexity and unmaintainability.
- functionality for data retrieval and search
- schema compatibility
how supported / maintainable is the parser
- 2) AI manifest structure and organization should be easy to use and understand, and scale to a wide variety of installation environments.
- Currently it is fragmented and could be better organized as it carries a lot of information.
- We decided that changing from XML is out of scope and off the table.
- 3) AI manifests need to be forward and backward compatible between builds.
- Old manifest to work on new build
- Have old build recognize new manifests and fail in a user-friendly way
- 4) Semantic validation is needed for AI.
- Lack of it means failures further down the installation process instead of up front, or misconfiguration.
- 5) AI manifests have validation holes.
- Example: criteria schema doesn't bind a min/max pair of ipv4 address patterns to an ipv4 address criterion.