I can live with the products and separate files for now ;-) Maybe after the pull request I'll see if I can make it / them more a part of initialization as well. So base the initialization on generic config files and write a dedicated initialized node file to disk once it's done.

I've also approached Kai and Thomas regarding the pepper DB. Maybe I'll try and get permission from Pepper to use their DB to populate our own files under EPL. Would be a nice way of getting a lot of info. and a few XSLT transformations will get them in any format quickly anyway.