There are several types of configuration transformations that currently exist. All are briefly described here, but more detail is available in the javadocs for the ConfigurationTransformation class. Construction and application of transformations are kept as separate phases to allow transformations to be treated like functions.
This is the basis of the transformation system. A transformation is composed of a TransformationAction assigned to a path (that may contain wildcard values). Paths are sorted in natural ordering from shortest path to longest path.