On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 16:42, Guy Harris wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Gilbert Ramirez wrote: > > > I've committed the change to CVS. Update and read the > > doc/README.xml-output file for more information. > > Should the mapping from Ethereal-specific names to generic PDML names > (e.g. "frame.number" -> "geninfo.num") be done by adding an additional > field to the "header_field_info" structure after "blurb" - if it's > null, use the Ethereal name, otherwise use that name? That might be > cleaner than wiring knowledge of particular fields into the > output-as-XML code.
It's only done for four fields, so it would seem wasteful to me to make the other 14,954 fields pay the price for that. (the price being memory.. 4 bytes to encode a NULL ) > > That'd require either > > 1) two versions of HFILL, one for fields with both types of name and > one for fields without both types of name > > or > > 2) a huge amount of editing. > > --gilbert _______________________________________________ Ethereal-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev
