[Nikto-discuss] FW: XML report file change in 2.1.1

[David Lodge]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:05:17 +0100, Peter Wang <wkwang at cisco.com> wrote:
> I noticed that there has been some changes introduced for XML report file
> format in Nikto 2.1.1.  In 2.03, scandetails element contains two
> attributes: itemstested and itemsfound. They have been moved a new  
> element
> <statistics/>. We have written a script in parsing Nikto XML report file  
> for
> result. This change broke our script in parsing Nikto XML result file.  
> So I
> want to understand what else change was introduced in Nikto 2.1.1 for XML
> report. Is there any Scheme or DTD file for reference?

Unfortunately we had to make some changes to how the XML schema worked  
(as, since 2.1.1, we generate the XML on the fly, rather than waiting  
until the end, meaning you can cancel the scan halfway through and still  
get an output).

The major changes have been:
* Move itemstested, itemsfound, elapsed, hoststotal, endtime to a new  
element <statistics>, this may be found as a child of <niktoscan> and  
<scandetails>
* New attribute nxmlversion to say the version of Nikto XML being used  
(currently 1.1)
* Added an optional <ssl> element as a child of <scandetails> to include  
ssl details (this is for trunk/2.1.2, so hasn't been released yet).

The dtd can be found inside docs/nikto.dtd.

dave