From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Mar 16 5:10:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DE737B400 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 05:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 69C084B65D; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 05:10:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 05:10:07 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security advisories and XML Message-ID: <20020316131007.GX17499@freebsdmall.com> References: <20020106215255.E67906@hellblazer.nectar.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020106215255.E67906@hellblazer.nectar.cc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This request is over 2 months old, but I think it's too good of an idea to just let die out in the archives. Surely someone must have the time and motivation to tackle this? XML security advisories would have a number of advantages, some of which are described below. This isn't much more than an hour or two of work. Can someone take a look at this to provide the security officers with a simple XSLT stylesheet and markup one of the recent security advisories in a well-formed XML file. - Murray On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:52:55PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if there is a doc person here who would care to work on tools > for producing security advisories? The initial targets would be: > > = XML DTD for security advisories > = Tools for converting XML source to the text format currently used > > Once we've gotten that far, we could consider: > > = Producing other formats > = Searching advisories by releases, affected components, and so on > = Notifications based on affected component, release, and so on > > Please drop me a line if you would be interested in working on such. > Thanks much! > -- > Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.nectar.cc/ > NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos > jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message