| From: Ulf Lamping
|
| Fulvio Risso wrote:
|
| >Hi Olivier.
| >
| >It seems to me that you're going to rewrite Analyzer ;-))
| >
| >Analyzer is able to export files in HTML.
| >It saves the PDML and it adds, in the same folder, a couple
| of other files
| >(XML style sheet, CSS) so that everything is displayed as
| HTML in a normal
| >browser (ehm... Internet Explorer only, so far).
| >
| >
| I wouldn't call IE a normal browser, especially if you are
| talking to an audience of mixed windows/unix users.
As long as you stick with as-standard-as-possible output,
I don't see a problem here.
| Do XSL stuff with the current Mozilla/Netscape versions
| shouldn't be too hard, if you code your things for it.
That's the only way to do this, I think. If you want to save
to HTML, you'll have to select *an* HTML format (including
the layout, preferably with a cascading style sheet).
| I have done some experiments with the IE and the Mozilla
| XSL(T) engine for a different project, and it worked ok for me.
|
| But every browser has it's edges, as we all now ;-) and IE
| has lot's of them :-(
|
| >To do that properly you should add support for PSML files,
| i.e. a file that
| >keeps the *summary* of the capture (basically, what Ethereal
| displays in the
| >window that lists all the packets in the capture).
| >
| >It may be an excellent idea to share the efforts to print
| packets in HTML between Analyzer and Ethereal.
This sounds fun!
Regards,
Olivier
