On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, at 17:33, Guy Harris wrote: > On Jun 21, 2018, at 12:28 AM, Ryan Doyle <r...@doylenet.net> wrote: > > > Step2. Expand by adding meaning to XML. The printer could then start to > > know what a <packet> is and what it's attributes mean. At this point we > > could start adding color to these. > > ... > > > Step3. Expand further, protocol by protocol adding printers that know about > > the contents of the XML. Also, IMO any dropping of printed information (eg, > > depending on the -vvvv flags) should be done when parsing the XML, not when > > generating it. The parser/printer would be the one that knows about -v > > flags and or timestamp options. > > ... > > > Disclaimer though: I really don't know how easy/hard this would be to do. > > Also it might introduce a dependency on libxml or otherwise unless we were > > to parse XML ourselves > > Presumably you mean "*generate* XML ourselves" - what you described is > an example of *writing* XML, not *reading* XML. *Writing* XML is easier > than *reading* it, and *writing* XML without the aid of libxml or some > other XML library is easier than *reading* it without the aid of such a > library.
I mean writing/generating XML to a buffer somewhere. This could be done without libxml but the strings would need to be escaped anyway. _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
