Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] XML to describe protocols?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 01:48:32 -0700
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:10:02PM -0700, Doug wrote:
> I guess the question is how stateful are the protocol modules in
> Ethereal,

Some of them are quite stateful.

However, there are many protocols that aren't, and a dissector-generator
might work for them; even though not *all* protocols could be handled by
having a "generic" dissector read an XML description, many of them
perhaps could be.