> This is where I'm still not sure what to do. I can easily attach > a (x)dbm hash underneath which would be perfectly OK. But with a > drawback of not being human-readable. I will have to think more > here...
You could use something as storage you are most familiar with and what fits the purpose, be it (x)dbm. Would it then be a lot of work to provide a transformation command that makes it human readable? Maybe this is sufficient. Bernd.