On Sep 25, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Christ Schlacta wrote: > I agree with some of the opposition about xml being harder to read. I > suggest it mainly because of it's ease of deployment. Perl has well > documented easy to use libraries for XML. I'm certainly open to other > options, and really just want something easier to use than the large > tabular format. Perhaps something custom would work. I have another idea. > Pick a constant to (optionally) terminate the end of the rule, such as ";" by > itsself in any column. then parse after the ; key-value pairs where > COLUMNNAME="value", in my example below > > DNAT net loc:10.0.0.1 tcp 80 ; MARK="88" > > just an arbitrary example, but it might inspire you :) >
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