Re: Attributes error in nmap XML output

[Thomas Buchanan <tbuchanan () thecompassgrp net>]

Max,

Thanks for the response.

Just noticed that this was one the bugs fixed in the 3.48 release.  I 
was using 3.45.  Guess that's what I get for not carefully reading the 
ChangeLog in the new releases.

Thomas

Max wrote:
> Thomas,
>
>     That is an nmap output bug as far as I can see .. should be using
>     single quotation marks for the nested quotes as the double-quotes
>     used the way they are are not XML-conformant.
>
>     Work around?  Pre-process the output, maybe something like
>
>     nmap options options options -oX - | \
>     perl -p -e 's/=("\S+=)"([^"]+)"/$1'"'"'$2'"'"'/g' | \
>     your_program_that_reads_from_standard_input
>
>     in a Bourne shell derivative.  That will catch cases like the one you 
>     listed below until there is a patch in place.
>
> Regards,
> Max
>
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:02:41 CDT, Thomas Buchanan wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm working on a fairly simple application that parses the XML output 
> > from nmap using libxml2.  I have run into a problem with attributes in 
> > the output of services that use SSL detection.  The tablemethod or 
> > probedmethod attributes of these service tags contains tunnel="ssl". 
> > The quotes around ssl seem to be causing the problem.  Here is an example:
> > <service name="https" tablemethod="tunnel="ssl" " conf="3" />
> >
> > When running xmllint (from the libxml2 package) these tags generate a 
> > attributes construct error, which prevents my application from parsing 
> > them correctly.  I would appreciate any help is working around this issue.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Thomas
> >
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