I am currently working on a chapter for the O'Reilly Nmap book which
covers all of the Nmap output formats. The normal, grepable, and even
s|<riPt KidDi3 output formats are relatively straightforward.
However, I believe that the XML output is under-utilized because many
people fail to recognize the power of the format or don't understand
all the tools for processing and transforming XML. Even I'm in the
latter category, though I'm working on it.
Documenting Nmap XML well is a first step toward improving the
situation. So this is a call for suggestions to all you XML advocates
out there. In what ways do you use the Nmap XML output? Do you parse
it from within a higher level program, transform it to HTML with XSLT, use it to
populate a database, use XPath to parse the results from the
command-line in a way that is as easy as awk/sec/cut/etc. on the
normal output, or something else entirely? Any detailed description
of how you use Nmap XML would be appreciated. Sample code or
command-lines would be handy as well.
Thanks,
Fyodor
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