Hi List!
After adding the PDML output into the print dialog, I had a closer look,
how Analyzer had implemented it's XML/HTML feature.
Analyzer http://analyzer.polito.it/ (alpha version: Mar 16th 2004) has
two export formats regarding the PDML things:
-PDML export, "only" the XML data file of the packets exported, just
like the format we do it today in Ethereal
-HTML export
The HTML export is doing the following:
a) generation of a PDML file (exactly like above), see:
http://analyzer.polito.it/30alpha/docs/dissectors/PDMLSpec.htm
b) generation of a PSML file, no file format specs currently available
online
c) generation/copying of some additional files like html, css, js, ...
to b) the PSML file contains the data of the packet list window, it has
an easy to understand XML formatting
to c) all the additional files doesn't contain capture related data,
only some filenames (links) are adapted while exporting
This HTML export will provide a webpage, showing the packet data just
like in the Ethereal window, using a three pane window.
As it's using XSL transformations and such, this will work only with
recent browsers (I've tested this with MS-IE 6.0 and Mozilla 1.6).
It's some sort of a simple "read-only" packet viewer.
This HTML export looks very promissing to me, we might want to adopt
this into Ethereal. The additional things to do would be to generate the
PSML file,
which shouldn't be too hard to achieve, and a way of handling the
additional files.
I've included a sample webpage, so you can see how the exported HTML
page looks like.
Regards, ULFL
P.S: the Analyzer things are considered alpha, so the formats might
change in the future
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