Re: text format stability

["Fulvio Risso" <fulvio.risso () polito it>]

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> 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
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> > > > > > "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
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>     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:
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> <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

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