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

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:53:31 +0100 
| -----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