[libvirt] [RFC] API vs XML

Hi, In my previous email Daniel made clear that for many functions it is preferable to have access to the XML output. I would like to know what the general opinion is about defining a domain. I can understand that people don't mind to define a domain manually or with tools and pump it inside libvirt with the virDomainDefineXML call. But why are the XML tree manipulating features not incorporated into the API? Slightly more 'semantics based' than Attach/Detach Device. Allowing to specify the information that is going into the XML. So for example: domainptr = virDomainDefine(name) virDomainSetName(domainptr, name) virDomainSetBootloader(domainptr, path) virDomainSetOS(domainptr, type) virDomainSetMemory(domainptr, amount, live) virDomainSetVCPU(domainptr, amount, live) virDomainAttachDisk(domainptr, type, sourceptr, targetptr, live) virDomainDetachDevice(domainptr, deviceptr, live) I know there are people that love XML here, but can someone give a reasonable statement why not to support the above? (More clean, less parsing) Stefan