Ethereal-dev: Re: Network-ML was Re:[ethereal-dev] High Level Filter/Plugin and Net-ML

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 03:00:51 -0600
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:37:37AM -0600, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> > If Ethereal provides the XML, provide a dessected tree. Ethereals purpose
> > is to dissect, so it should do so.
> 
> That's certainly my inclination.
> 
> > If this is not what you want get the
> > tcpdump (or something like that, pcap?) people to provide raw packets in 
> XML
> 
> ...which I'm not sure would be useful - a raw packet is a lump of
> unstructured data, so I'm not sure what providing it in some XML-based
> format would buy you.

Agreed. It would be like a bitmap graphic inside a Postscript file ---
bloated but portable. There's no reason for it.

--gilbert