Re: parsing XML with NSE

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:55 PM, DePriest, Jason R.
<jrdepriest () gmail com> wrote:
> Is there an XML parser available for NSE that could take XML and turn
> it in to Lua tables?
>
> I've read http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaXml which says that you can get
> Lua to do it, but it isn't built-in.  Is something like LuaXML already
> present?
>
> On another note, it would be nice if whatever parser existed could
> also handle XSLT filtes.
>
> I was starting to work on an NSE script that can parse the NAI ePolicy
> Orchestrator agent information available from port 8081 on hosts
> running ePO Agent, but I don't want to duplicate work if there is a
> library I can already plug in.

There most definitely is somewhere. I'll go on a search. For those
wondering, the lua-users.org site just got moved to new servers and
the DNS might not be up to speed in your area (it's not for me).


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- Patrick Donnelly
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