[John McDermott <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This sounds like a great idea to me. It has so many uses byond SQL 
encoding.  I once did a limited tcpdump->HTML perl script to create a 
poor man's remote network monitor.  If tethereal could dump to XML 
directly, generating HTML would be "simple". Having XML output of 
[t]ethereal would be very useful to me.

--john

Richard Urwin wrote:
> On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 9:49 pm, Jason House wrote:
>
> > Let me answer with questions ;)
> >
> > What % of the protocols that ethereal dissects...
> >   ...place every registered field in every dissected packet? (ie udp)
> >   ...place at most one copy of a field in every dissected packet?
> >      (udp would qualify if it wasn't for udp.port)
> >   ...contain variable length lists of fields?  (ie. ospf)
> >   ...have many fields that are sometimes used? (ie. ospf's lsa's)
>
>
> Howabout dumping to XML, and letting users use other tools if they want SQL. 
> Those tools exist (IIUC), and XML can handle the complexity.


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