Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] XML dictionary parsing with flex/bison

[Anders Broman <a.broman@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Stephen Fisher skrev 2010-10-16 18:58:
> 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.
If I remember correctly long time ago we had an xml stub(for diameter) 
using libxml but there was a question about the licence not being GPL 
compatible. GLIB's xml parser would be an option but you'll have to use
GLIB_CHECK_VERSION as it's not available in the lowest version we 
require I think.
Regards
Anders
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