Re: [Patch] Re: NMAP XML reports unreadable in linux

["Adam Vartanian" <flooey () gmail com>]

> The trouble with Nmap is that the XML output often evolves without the
> necessary changes being made to the DTD.  Or as you pointed out, the DTD
> may evolve without users updating to the latest release.  It's probably
> better to leave the DOCTYPE out by default.

The release problem could be dealt with by having every revision to
the DTD stored on the website (nmap-4.2alpha3.dtd, etc), though I
don't know if Fyodor is interested in doing that.  Then each version
would only need to spit out the version of the DTD that its XML is
valid for.

- Adam


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