Hello everyone, I was advised on Gerrit to post this issue here as to garner wider input.
This concerns proposed Change-Id I13c0a2f408fb5c21bad7ab3d7971e0fa8ed7d783 [1] intending to add libxml2 as optional dependency to Wireshark. I am currently preparing to submit upstream, changes I did to the EPL v2 dissector (packet-epl.c). A significant change is the ability to optionally read in user-supplied XML device descriptions and to extract type/description/mapping information for aiding the dissection. See this previous submission of mine to the mailing list: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201701/msg00154.html Seeing as there also has been interest for libxml2 support in dissectors in the past: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201005/msg00108.html https://ask.wireshark.org/questions/36063/using-libxml2-in-my-own-dissector I think, it would be a good idea to have this as optional dependency as Glib's GMarkup may be inadequate or inconvenient for parsing actual XML. Looking forward to your feedback. Best regards, Ahmad Fatoum [1] https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/20912/
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