I'm more in favor of saying that the creator is "ethereal/0.10.0". As Fulvio
already said, the PDML *format* does not change, and this is reflected in
the version attribute of the pdml tag.
Maybe we should include a "created" attribute with a (localized?) timestamp
of creation.
Regards,
Olivier Biot
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gilbert Ramirez"
> On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 00:48, Martin Regner wrote:
> > Fulvio Risso wrote:
> > <Yes, but the *format* of the PDML output does not change if you modify
the
> > <dissectors.
> > <An oupdated dissector will change the *data* inside the PDML file, not
the
> > <*format* of the PDML file.
> > <So, I believe that "creator" should keep only the name (not the
version) of
> > <the PDML file.
> >
> > I think that it is good to indicate the version of Ethereal anyway in
the
> > PDML header, and this would still be good to have even when the
> > PDML file format is stable (but dissectors will never be stable).
>
> We could change the creator attribute to be
> PACKAGE/FORMAT-VERSION/PACKAGE-VERSION, so that tethereal's output would
> have:
>
> <pdml version="0" creator="ethereal/1/0.10.0">
>
>
> >
> > PS! I made a simple program a few days ago in just a couple of hours
that
> > makes use of the PDML output from tethereal. It takes the Tethereal
0.10.0
> > PDML output for a T.38 fax call and extracts the T.4 compressed picture
data
> > (so far just supports G3Fax 1D-compression or G3Fax 2D-compression) and
puts
> > in a TIFF-file. However the generated TIFF-file is not yet completely
> > according to the TIFF Class F format. Some TIFF-viewers may not like the
> > deviations (the 1D-compressed pictures worked with most programs I have
> > tried so far). But I can use e.g. tiff2ps to convert the TIFF file to
> > postscript format or tiffcp to convert the file into another TIFF file.
>
>
> That's great! I'm glad that the PDML output is proving useful to you.
>
> --gilbert
