Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Print as XML - Status of work?

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From: "Fulvio Risso" <fulvio.risso@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:33:23 +0100
Excellent suggestion.

	fulvio

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Biot Olivier
> Sent: venerd� 5 dicembre 2003 12.54
> To: 'Fulvio Risso'; Gilbert Ramirez; Carsten Buchenau
> Cc: Ethereal Development
> Subject: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Print as XML - Status of work?
>
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Fulvio Risso
> |
> | > -----Original Message-----
> | > From: Gilbert Ramirez
> | >
> | > I *could* check in what I have now, but I worry that if people start
> | > relying on the format and it has to change in the future then people
> | > might get upset at having to modify their scripts. I wonder if it's
> | > worthwhile to stick a version number into the file somehow to denote
> | > that this is the first version of tethereal's PDML output.
> |
> |    <pdml version="xx">
> | should be enough.
>
> I think a generator or creator attribute may be useful too:
>
> <pdml version="0" creator="ethereal/0.9.16">
>
> The semantics of this is: if version == 0 then look at creator
> for decoding.
>
> Regards,
>
> Olivier
>
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