Re: "Tagged" Output

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Davy,

Thanks for the contribution. I replied on Github regarding this change:
https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/211#issuecomment-228335524

Dan

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Davy Durham <ddurham () bomgar com> wrote:

> Hi, we possibly spoke on IRC today.
>
> I was trying to ensure that I could match <host> entries in the xml output
> to the input host list given to nmap.
>
>
> Attached is a patch that appears to work.
>
> You can suffix any hostname/address-expr with ^mytag and it will include
> it as <host tag="mytag" ...> in the output.  I find this necessary because
> my user gives me a some recordings with each containing a hostname (really
> could be ip, hostname or fqdn) and I need a way to know which result in the
> output corresponds to the record the user gave me.
>
>
> How likely is this patch to be accepted?  I'm flexible on the suffix
> separator if it needs to change (originally wanted '#' like a hashtag, but
> that's processed as a comment.. which I suppose could just as well be
> "preserved" in the xml as comment="...").
>
> If it's acceptable, what else would I need to do (e.g. update man pages,
> post online where?)
>
> I desire to retain no rights to the changes.
>
> Thanks
>
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