Mailing List Archive: XML 1.3.0

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 06:07:27PM -0500, Matt Woodyard wrote:
> In XML generated by 1.3.0 there are plugin elements, which have an id that
> is referenced in the results. This id, is it something that is made up per
> report or is a globally referencable number that will "never" change.
> Basically, I am trying to determine whether I want to have a new set of
> data stuffed into the table for the plugins used in each report or if
> "batch" imports of plugin data would be acceptable.

If you are referring to XML version 1.3.0 then I think the id is global
(it is the actual nessus plugin id). When I do my XML imports, I ignore
the plugins section at the top of the XML document and simply fetch the plugin
information once (for insertion into a db) via:

nessus -qSp localhost 1241 login password > out.sql

Rohan