Hi vsespb, Thanks a lot for sharing your suggestions. I am not sure, if I understood the way you are integrating tasks and customizations but it seems following: 
1) $h (hash) so used in your file(should be standard file?).

2) the module should be then included in task side code where the $h o
+f this module will be read.

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Advantage seems to be that xml parser overhead is not required. but then again xml/text have their own pros and cons. 
Some concerns:
1) are you suggesting reading this : "task=B pretask=makeAServerdown p
+osttask=checkBServer" from some text file. or hardcoding in code? I a
+m assuming text file for now.

2) The customizations suggested by you will work if only known action 
+is being called. But my use case is that user can customize with anyt
+hing they like i.e. they can maybe add any code block they want etc.
 example of code block: (simple example here)

for (int i=0;i<10;i++) {
print('just a block for fun: ' . $i . "\n");
}

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Kindly look into this and please correct me as required.

In reply to Re^2: handling tasks and customizing flow of tasks using perl by asham
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