Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] XML dictionary parsing with flex/bison
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From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:58:29 -0600
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:40:17PM -0400, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:

> or libxml2 which I think is included in wireshark builds (right?),

libxml2 is not a requirement to build Wireshark, nor is it even an 
option.

> 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?

Probably historical - it's been around since before XML was thought up:) 
There may be other reasons that I'm not aware of though.