Re: JSON Output Format

[Casey Dunham <cdunham () gnosis-security com>]

Thanks Fyodor. I'll work on producing an XSL as a first step.

Casey

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Casey Dunham <cdunham () gnosis-security com
> > wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Would there be any interest in a JSON output format if I contributed the
> > code? It looks like the output code would need to be cleaned up a bit to
> > accommodate it.
> >
> > The JSON output would resemble the XML output with regards to the keys and
> > values.
> >
> > While I am using the XML output, I would prefer  to work with JSON.
>
> Hi Casey. Perhaps the first step would be creating an XSL or a small
> script for converting Nmap XML results into JSON.  This might be similar
> (in concept) to the one we have for converting XML results to HTML.  If
> that proves popular, we could consider adding more native support.  But
> supporting multiple output formats is a huge pain, and it is hard to change
> or remove them without annoying all the people who use a given output
> format, so we're very selective in what we support.  We have Nmap's normal
> output for humans to read, plus XML for machine parsing and/or converting
> to other output formats.  We have "grepable format" too, but that's been
> deprecated for many years.
>
> Cheers,
> Fyodor
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