Nmap/Parser/XML version 0.40
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This module is intended to sift through the nmap scan outputs in xml form,
either by passing a filehandle that is being piped from a current nmap scan
or passing an xml filename that is the output of the of using the '-oX file.xml'
option. It uses the XML::Twig library, which is memory efficient and fast.
In the authors opinion, this module is very easy to use to extract information
from an nmap xml scan output.

See pod for details

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

	XML::Twig 3.0+

In addition, you will need nmap 3.00+. You don't exactly need it, but this
version of nmap supports the xml output that this module can parse. So, you do
not really need the executable, but the xml output that you will be parsing
(or able to parse), must be from this version forward.

CHANGES

Changes for 0.4
        - added new package called ScanInfo (Nmap::Parser::XML::ScanInfo
        	this contains methods that make it easier to access the
        	scan information
	- added new package called Host (Nmap::Parser::XML::Host),
		which makes it easier to access values for each of the
		hosts found. See documentation.
		Host trees are now full of these *::Host objects.
	- fixed minor bugs with parsing the xml files.
	- some memory usage improvments.

TODO
	- have full support of all the scan information
	- add tcp sequences
	- faster code?

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2003 Anthony G Persaud

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

