Nmap Development: Re: XML output, SAX, and nmap. [was Re: PostgreSQL patch]

[Bradley Kite <bradley () deathsgate demon co uk>]

yeah I'll help out where ever I can... I cant say I will be able to
respond in a timely manour to any queries however, as I do have a full-time
job and a drinking problem (its  more of a stopping problem to be honest ;-)


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Brad.

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 04:10:44AM -0356, Max Schubert wrote:
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> From: "Max Schubert" <musitechman () earthlink net>
> Subject: XML output, SAX, and nmap.  [was Re: PostgreSQL patch]
> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 12:10:44 -6756
>
> Hi,
>
>     I have tested the SAX2 parser in perl
>
>     XML::SAX::PurePerl
>
>     And it does parse real-time ... stdout just has to be unbuffered to see things :) ..
>     so the same would be for Java and others, as the perl parser follows the SAX2 
>     standard ... 
>
>     http://sax.sourceforge.net
>
>     This real-time parsing is why SAX came about .. DOM (document object model) can 
>     use a lot of memory as it reads the whole document and makes an in-memory tree of 
>     it ... which is great for apps that need a whole doc at a time ... for apps that are 
>     just interested in parts of an XML doc (like a search engine) it is too much and too
>     slow.
>
>     So this will not be a hinderance if we decide to have nmap have "live" XML output ..
>     I will attempt this with the source once I get my linux box back up (I am on cygwin 
>     right now on Win9blech) ... I will try this this week and see how far I can get :).
>
>     If it works, I will switch my perl modules to parsing the XML as well and other
>     external tools can all provide an event-driven API!
>
>     Anyone interested in working on this with me?
>
> Max
>
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