"Tagged" Output

[Davy Durham <ddurham () bomgar com>]

Hi, we possibly spoke on IRC today.

I was trying to ensure that I could match <host> entries in the xml 
output to the input host list given to nmap.


Attached is a patch that appears to work.

You can suffix any hostname/address-expr with ^mytag and it will include 
it as <host tag="mytag" ...> in the output.  I find this necessary 
because my user gives me a some recordings with each containing a 
hostname (really could be ip, hostname or fqdn) and I need a way to know 
which result in the output corresponds to the record the user gave me.


How likely is this patch to be accepted?  I'm flexible on the suffix 
separator if it needs to change (originally wanted '#' like a hashtag, 
but that's processed as a comment.. which I suppose could just as well 
be "preserved" in the xml as comment="...").

If it's acceptable, what else would I need to do (e.g. update man pages, 
post online where?)

I desire to retain no rights to the changes.

Thanks

Attachment: nmap-tagged-output.patch
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