Re: Zenmap broken XML parsing

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:51:04PM +0430, Hamid Kashfi wrote:
> ## and second problem , Zenmap XML parsing :
>
> Zenmap seems to fail reading XML files that are result of incomplete
> scans ( like ended by ctrl+x ) or even XML files being appended by
> --resume . Is fixing the xml mess manually , the only way to have
> outputs back in Zenmap ?

Interrupting a scan or appending an XML scan to half of an existing XML
scan is going to leave a broken XML file. I'm not sure it's worth Zenmap
supporting this. Your web browser and any other XML tool is going to
reject it too.

It might be reasonable to support parsing an interrupted XML file, if
it's possible to get the Python XML parsing libraries to reveal what is
the cause of an XML parsing exception. Appending a new root element to a
half-completed XML file (as --resume does) leaves a thoroughly mixed-up
document; that's not likely to be supported.

David Fifield

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