Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GVCP Dissector
From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:14:13 -0700
On Aug 17, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:

> I think it would be great to have a standard XML parser available in Wireshark -
> for my dissector, it would be to parse the XML document that is embedded in the
> ConfigUpdate RELOAD message.

Are you talking about dissectors having XML configuration files that they read when they start up, or about parsing XML contained in packets?  This thread started out discussing the former (which we have with hand-written Flex scanners); we already have the latter (see epan/dissectors/packet-xml.c).