17. The method of claim 15 further comprising, maintaining the structured document in a repository, and distributing the structured document to managed machines for processing to perform the management task.
15. In a computing environment, a method comprising: receiving authored machine policy; formalizing the authored machine policy into a structured document, wherein the structured document comprises at least one schema type, at least one rule and at least one action style; and processing the structured document to perform a management task, including loading an action-style document, and using the action-style document as a guide document to transforming lines of the structured document into output that when executed performs the task.