Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] soap dissector...

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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:27:47 +0200
It will take time but I am working on an advanced xml dissector that
will use DTDs to interpret the data in the xml as fields.

that is:

<country>
    Republic of Ireland
    <capital>
       Dublin
    </capital>
    ...
</country>
 

given the right DTD we could filter with:
 xml.country == "Republic of Ireland" && xml.country.capital == "Dublin"

I aborted recently the Idea of having a single namespace API for
radius, diameter, xml, and mate
I got to the point where I found that either the API would have to be
too complex to fit them all or the dissectors would become much
complex themselves to use a common Namespace library.

I'm almost done with radius, I think I'll go next xml to then go to diameter.

As for SOAP goes if then we can describe it with a DTD we'll be able
to dissect it.

Luis.

On 7/12/05, Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> nimalan s wrote:
> 
> > Is there a soap dissector already in ethereal.
> 
> No.
> 
> > I couldnt find it..If there is any tell me where is it?
> > If not how to decode soap messages using ethereal?
> 
> The XML plugin dissector has dissected the media type
> "application/soap+xml" as XML for a while.
> 
> If somebody wants something different from what the XML dissector does,
> they should write a dissector to do that, which registers for
> "application/soap+xml" in the "media_type" dissector, and submit it,
> along with a patch to make the XML plugin not register for that media type.
> 
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