Nmap Development: Re: PostgreSQL patch

["Max Schubert" <musitechman () earthlink net>]

Forwarding this to the list ... Jean-Marc corrected my comment about SAX working
with streams ... thank you.

> Yes, but a lot of C parser aren't free/open...
> I know some, most known is Expat... But, to work, it have to get the =
> whole file/string, even if it does a sax-based parsing...
> take a look at the parser which is aprt of the gnome
> project...http://xmlsoft.org/
>
> just my 0.02 ;)
>
> regards,
>
> Jean-Marc LE TOUX - aka Peace
I know there are several free parsers for Java, perl has an expat wrapper + at least one
other that is all perl ... but I mistakenly thought they parsed the stream as it 
happened and didn't check for well-formedness first by parsing the whole document ... 
maybe there is a switch to turn the well-formedness check off .. I will check it out 
with perl.

Slightly off-topic but related to the external API question :) ... the XML output
format is definitely the way to go with reading from nmap via a pipe as far as
stability is concerned ... but I really like being able to report events to whatever
API is used to wrap them in real-time ... as nmap scans can take a significant period
of time to finish.

Max


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