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> From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gilbert Ramirez
> Sent: giovedì 4 dicembre 2003 23.06
> To: Carsten Buchenau
> Cc: Ethereal Development
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Print as XML - Status of work?
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:12, Carsten Buchenau wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am working on a project where I need to post-process [t]ethereal
> > output, and having this in XML format would ease a lot of my work. More
> > precisely, I would need the ability to print a capture file as XML
> > integrated in [t]ethereal.
> >
> > So I read with great interest the thread "RFC: Print as XML" as started
> > by Gilbert in September
> > (http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200309/msg00488.html),
> > including the link to the PDML spec... Can you tell me what's
> the status
> > on that? Did you decide on a specification already and can you estimate
> > when you might start the implementation in cvs??
> >
> > thanks a lot,
> > carsten
> >
>
>
> I've had it in a stable state for a while, but haven't checked it in
> because I was working with Fulvio Risso to make sure the PDML that
> tethereal produces works in Analyzer. We're having some problems there,
> but both our schedules are busy such that we haven't made progress on
> that front.
Yes, due to my fault.
I'm still very busy with teaching till Christmas, and I had no chance to
provide feedback to Gilbert.
> I *could* check in what I have now, but I worry that if people start
> relying on the format and it has to change in the future then people
> might get upset at having to modify their scripts. I wonder if it's
> worthwhile to stick a version number into the file somehow to denote
> that this is the first version of tethereal's PDML output.
<pdml version="xx">
should be enough.
> If anyone has an idea on how to do that (remember, I'm no XML expert),
> I'd love to hear it. Attached is a sample PDML file from tethereal.
>
> BTW, when I *do* check in the work, part of the package will also be a
> Python class to parse the XML and provide Python objects representing
> the packets. I'm using that for my own script which does post-processing
> of a capture file.
Cheers,
fulvio
