Nmap Development: Re: Custom information in output xml files

[Diman Todorov <diman.todorov () univie ac at>]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
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> Extending Tomas' idea a little bit more, I gather an "NML Output  
> Templating" or a general Templating
> system for each output mode would be lovely, yet probably over- 
> complicated... maybe just a "custom
> output mode" that could read a template.tpl file, and write the  
> output for each host based on that
> template...?
actually this is exactly the reason why Nmap supports XML output.  
Using XML style sheets you can merge the information from the output  
XML into any template system you want to use (think XSL).

Or to come back to Tomas' problem, I think it is a more elegant  
solution to integrate Nmap's XML output with other namespaces than  
extending Nmap's own XML vocabulary. There already exist several quasi  
standards to deal with projects (e.g. DOAP [1]) which are probably  
more suitable for practical use than anything the Nmap community could  
cook up in a pinch.

just my 2 cents

cheers,
Diman

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOAP

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