[meta] Refactor Suite XML Capabilities

[krmahadevan]

As part of streamling the suite xml file processing capabilities the following goals are expected to be met.

• #3159

• #3160

• #3161

• #3162

• #3163

Originally posted by @juherr in #3037 (reply in thread)

[krmahadevan]

@juherr - This is the issue that tracks this requirement. I learnt one new cool thing on github today. You can actually create issues and define sub-tasks for them :)