- config layout. xml? e.g.
...
<disk type="gpt" name="sda">
  <part size="50%" name="/" format="8303" />
  <part size="40%" name="/home" format="8302" />
  <part size="5%" name="swap" format="8200" />
  <part size="5%" name="/boot" format="ef02" />
</disk>
...

- use sgdisk? scripting (generated by python) for disk partitioning (part types listed at http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/walkthrough.html )
- add mkfs-ing

-support serverside "autoconfig"- a mechanism to let servers automatically generate xml build configs. e.g.:
  kernel ... aif_url="https://build.domain.tld/aif-ng.php" auto=yes
would yield the *client* sending info via URL params, e.g.
  https://build.domain.tld/aif-ng.php?disk[]=sda&disk[]=sdb&disk[sda]=300GB&disk[sdb]=500GB
? something like that.

parser: make sure to use https://mikeknoop.com/lxml-xxe-exploit/ fix

need to set proper location block for https://aif.square-r00t.net/aif.xsd


xmllint --noout --schema aif.xsd aif.xml

docs:
http://lxml.de/parsing.html
https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd
http://lxml.de/validation.html#xmlschema
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3084155/custom-attributes-in-an-xsd-schema
https://www.w3schools.com/xml/schema_intro.asp
https://www.w3schools.com/xml/schema_example.asp
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd489258.aspx