Re: text format stability

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca>]

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> > > > > "Guy" == Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> writes:
    Guy> Along those lines, Tethereal currently offers the ability to
    Guy> output either one-line summary information, a detailed
    Guy> multi-line parse, *or* PDML XML-based dissection for packets.
    Guy> See

    Guy>
    Guy> http://analyzer.polito.it/30alpha/docs/dissectors/PDMLSpec.htm

    Guy> for the PDML specification.

  I think it is an abuse of XML... nothing is actually marked up. 

  Everything seems to be given as attributes, i.e.:

<field name="verhlen" pos="15" show="45" showname="Version and header Length" size="1" value="45">

  rather than:

<field name="verhlen" pos="15" show="45" showname="Version and header Length" size="1">0x45</field>

  
  It does use the container mechanism to do sub-structure, but I'm not
convinced that I like it this.

  It is worth looking at.
  How widespread is PDML?

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