Re: Hard-coded xmloutputversion in nmap.dtd--remove it?

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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David Fifield wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:17:46PM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> > > Finally, what does every use xmloutputversion for? I notice that the
> > > parser in Zenmap never uses it. Is validity (in an XML sense) important
> > > to your application? Zenmap's USR files are remarkably invalid yet they
> > > get the point across. It could be that xmloutputversion isn't worth much
> > > fuss.
> > So while my answer to this is pretty much "meh", I think that's a good enough
> > answer for an opinion on this matter since it means there's no fuss :)  Of
> > course this does mean I'll need to update my library again for another change...
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, this shouldn't require changing any parsers, it
> should be fully backward-compatible. Instead of saying,
> "xmloutputversion has to be '1.02'," we'll say, "xmloutputversion is any
> string," and of course "1.02" will continue to be valid. If we ever do
> make a backward-incompatible change to the XML output, like removing a
> requried element or changing the structure of an element, then we could
> create a new DTD that would live with the current one in parallel.

Ah, yes, this indeed sounds OK.  I had only skimmed your proposal (since I
still don't care either way), and misread it in the process.

> David Fifield

Thanks,
Kris Katterjohn

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