On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 Guy Harris Wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:26:45PM -0500, Jim Duke wrote:
> > My preference would be to declare the enumerations (and the field
> > structure definitions) in XML and provide an XML parser that would
> > register the field arrays during initialization from XML data files.
>
> Would that require that Ethereal be linked with an XML library? If so,
> your dissector would have to be conditionally included, so that it's
> built in only if an XML library is present. (*Requiring* an XML
library
> for Ethereal would not be desirable - I'd prefer not to add more
> required libraries, although libraries that, if present, mean Ethereal
> can do more are OK.)
If I decide to use that method - then yes, the dissector would require
an XML library. And yes, I would certainly add the checks to the
configure script and affected code files to conditionally compile those
parts that are dependent on that new library. I have worked for a
number of years with autoconf and automake, so that is a matter of
course for me.
Also, I would assume that the preference would be to stay pure C, which
would imply that I should stay away from any C++ XML parsers... I'm
leaning towards the GNOME libxml2 parser, but I'm open to suggestions.
Jim Duke
