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Re: text format stability
From: "Fulvio Risso" <fulvio.risso () polito it>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:34:44 +0200
-----Original Message----- From: tcpdump-workers-owner () lists tcpdump org [mailto:tcpdump-workers-owner () lists tcpdump org]On Behalf Of Michael Richardson Sent: mercoledì 30 giugno 2004 21.58 To: tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] text format stability -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----"Guy" == Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> writes:Guy> Along those lines, Tethereal currently offers the ability to Guy> output either one-line summary information, a detailed Guy> multi-line parse, *or* PDML XML-based dissection for packets. Guy> See Guy> Guy> http://analyzer.polito.it/30alpha/docs/dissectors/PDMLSpec.htm Guy> for the PDML specification. I think it is an abuse of XML... nothing is actually marked up. Everything seems to be given as attributes, i.e.: <field name="verhlen" pos="15" show="45" showname="Version and header Length" size="1" value="45"> rather than: <field name="verhlen" pos="15" show="45" showname="Version and header Length" size="1">0x45</field> It does use the container mechanism to do sub-structure, but I'm not convinced that I like it this.
You can change and do it better ;-)
It is worth looking at. How widespread is PDML?
Analyzer uses this natively. Ethereal is able to prodice PDML output (altough it uses a slightly modified dialectn of PDML). fulvio - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
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- Re: text format stability Guy Harris (Jun 30)
- Re: text format stability Jefferson Ogata (Jul 01)