Max,
Thanks for the response.
Just noticed that this was one the bugs fixed in the 3.48 release. I
was using 3.45. Guess that's what I get for not carefully reading the
ChangeLog in the new releases.
Thomas
Max wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> That is an nmap output bug as far as I can see .. should be using
> single quotation marks for the nested quotes as the double-quotes
> used the way they are are not XML-conformant.
>
> Work around? Pre-process the output, maybe something like
>
> nmap options options options -oX - | \
> perl -p -e 's/=("\S+=)"([^"]+)"/$1'"'"'$2'"'"'/g' | \
> your_program_that_reads_from_standard_input
>
> in a Bourne shell derivative. That will catch cases like the one you
> listed below until there is a patch in place.
>
> Regards,
> Max
>
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:02:41 CDT, Thomas Buchanan wrote:
>
>
>
>>I'm working on a fairly simple application that parses the XML output
>>from nmap using libxml2. I have run into a problem with attributes in
>>the output of services that use SSL detection. The tablemethod or
>>probedmethod attributes of these service tags contains tunnel="ssl".
>>The quotes around ssl seem to be causing the problem. Here is an example:
>><service name="https" tablemethod="tunnel="ssl" " conf="3" />
>>
>>When running xmllint (from the libxml2 package) these tags generate a
>>attributes construct error, which prevents my application from parsing
>>them correctly. I would appreciate any help is working around this issue.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Thomas
>>
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