Well I wrote that lexer for Diameter to avoid yet-another-dep. I did
not expect yet more parsers to follow-suit.
I myself hate XML and all the paraphernalia that comes with it... my
writing of the XML dissector was an unsuccesful exercise of
de-mystification. I hate it even more after writing it!
If your data can be represented with a simple table avoid XML... use a
simple table. If YAML can do, YAML does it better...
If your data uses a structure expat and other tools do not populate
YOUR structures, they load the data into THEIR framework and then you
have to CODE to get it out... You end up writing as much code for
navigating their structs as you would if you wrote your own parser.
And you have to deal with the runtime-lib dependency too!
If there was an XML framework that given an XSL or DTD and a
conformance file generated C-code to extract data into user defined
C-structs, I'd certainly had used it... (there's a plethora of
similar tools for ASN.1). No such tool found yet arround...
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Matt Poduska
<mpoduska.intermec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, it sounds as though there is no generic XML parser available. The beauty
> of XML is that you don't need to generate a special parser for every schema.
> Has there been any thought to adding the Expat XML parser
> (http://expat.sourceforge.net) or something like it? If I submit a snapshot
> of an open-source XML parsing library to the Wireshark source tree, does it
> have a chance of being accepted?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abhik Sarkar [mailto:sarkar.abhik@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 11:54 PM
> To: mpoduska.intermec@xxxxxxxxx; Developer support list for Wireshark
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] XML Parser
>
> I needed something similar for feature I have been working on for the SMPP
> dissector. I could not (when I started working on this) find any ready-made
> XML parser library in the WS tool chain. So, I have shamelessly copied
> LEGO's good work on the Diamater Diameter dictionary support (which us also
> based on XML files). It was a bit tough for me (because I have never worked
> with Lex before), but it was a good learning experience. There is also the
> XML dissector which (if I remember correctly) uses the lemon parser
> generator.
>
> HTH
> Abhik.
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Matt Poduska <mpoduska.intermec@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> I'm looking to add support for loading vendor extension information
>> into the LLRP protocol dissector (submitted, but not yet accepted).
>> The vendor extension files are XML formatted, and define the structure
>> and content of extensions to the LLRP protocol. The vendor extension
>> XML files would be read when the dissector is initialized, and would
>> produce structures (in
>> memory) that would be used to dissect the protocol extensions.
>>
>> Is there an XML parsing library available to my dissector?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt Poduska
>> Software Engineer, RFID Systems
>> Intermec
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