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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
> Richardson
> Sent: mercoledì 30 giugno 2004 21.58
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] text format stability
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> >>>>> "Guy" == Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guy> Along those lines, Tethereal currently offers the ability to
> Guy> output either one-line summary information, a detailed
> Guy> multi-line parse, *or* PDML XML-based dissection for packets.
> Guy> See
>
> Guy>
> Guy> http://analyzer.polito.it/30alpha/docs/dissectors/PDMLSpec.htm
>
> Guy> for the PDML specification.
>
> I think it is an abuse of XML... nothing is actually marked up.
>
> Everything seems to be given as attributes, i.e.:
>
> <field name="verhlen" pos="15" show="45" showname="Version and
> header Length" size="1" value="45">
>
> rather than:
>
> <field name="verhlen" pos="15" show="45" showname="Version and
> header Length" size="1">0x45</field>
>
>
> It does use the container mechanism to do sub-structure, but I'm not
> convinced that I like it this.
You can change and do it better ;-)
> It is worth looking at.
> How widespread is PDML?
Analyzer uses this natively.
Ethereal is able to prodice PDML output (altough it uses a slightly modified
dialectn of PDML).
fulvio
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