We have a NASL parser already in some format which parses most part of the description elements and also there are some additional scripts to check the correctness of various description elements.
Some amount of additional work is required, once we are done with that, we'll be releasing in GPL. This will help to enforce the standards. Thanks, Chandra. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Meyer Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Openvas-plugins] Standardization of plugin formats *** Shawn Duffy <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to parse this using a fairly simple RegEx? Sure. But > since everyone appears to be free to add their info anyway they like, as > long as it is syntactically correct in NASL, you're forced to > continually check new plugins to see if some other contributed script > has come up with an entirely new way to enter the info. Throw maybe take a look at http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RALAMOSM/Parse-Nessus-Plugin-0.5/lib/Parse/Ne ssus/Plugin.pm Maybe it's inspiring ... Micha _______________________________________________ Openvas-plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-plugins _______________________________________________ Openvas-plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-plugins
