XML dictionary parsing with flex/bison

[Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan () acmepacket com>]

Howdy,
I'm thinking of adding XML dictionary file support to the IPFIX dissector, similar in concept to the Diameter 
dictionary.  It appears Wireshark's Diameter dictionary reader uses flex/bison to parse the XML, and I'm curious if 
that's what we're supposed to use for such things in Wireshark?  I'd prefer to just use Glib's GMarkupParser, or 
libxml2 which I think is included in wireshark builds (right?), because I'm not familiar with flex/bison or lex/yacc.  
But if there's some specific reason flex/bison should be used, I can go learn how to use them.  

Is there a reason for using flex/bison for that?

Thanks,
-hadriel
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