Nmap Development: Re: Nmap XML HowTo

["Adriano Monteiro" <py.adriano () gmail com>]

Amit,

I sent this e-mail with cc to Joao and Guilherme to call them to this
conversation, and see how they think you could help them.


Cheers!

On 5/10/07, Amit Kumar Saha <amitsaha.in () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Fyodor,
>
> > Hi Amit.  I think the HOWTO is a great idea!  And version 0.1 is a
> > good start.
> Thanks.
>
> > Maybe instead of designing a command-line utility specifically for
> > Nmap XML, you can demonstrate in your HOWTO how to use existing
> > generic XML command-line utilities to parse Nmap output.  I think many
> > Nmap users (including me to some extent) fall back on Nmap grepable
> > output because we grew up with command-line tools like awk, sed, cut,
> > etc. for parsing plaintext.  But parsing Nmap XML output using
> > command-line XML tools to grab fields with XPath and the like can lead
> > to command-lines which are shorter, easier to write, and a hundred
> > times easier to read than a big string of piped sed/awk/etc.
> I am currently playing with XMLStarlet, proposed by Dirk. I should be
> able to put up something soon.
>
> > But I do see the value in other sorts of special-purpose Nmap XML
> > command-line utilities (and/or libraries).  They could do things like
> > take 2 Nmap XML output files and produce an XML file describing the
> > differences.  Tools like UMIT or PBNJ or simpler cron jobs could all
> > share such a common utility/library.
> This will be the next thing on my mind and lets us see what Adriano
> says about its application to Umit.
>
> Cheers,
>
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