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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [libnftables PATCH] xml: expr: fix public interface for parsing
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:55:12 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 04:31:47PM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> On 26 July 2013 16:19, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > Hi Arturo,
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:00:31PM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> >> This patch adds a public interface for parsing expr XML.
> >> Before this patch, that operation was not possible.
> >
> > rule parse already parses expressions.
> >
> > Do you need this? If so, please specify the usage. Thanks.
> 
> I don't need this.
> 
> The only motivation was all object having a way of going from str to
> nft_* but expr.
> As you stated, currently the only way of parsing a XML expr is if the
> expr itself is nested inside a rule.
> 
> but i'm fine without it ATM.

Let keep this back. I prefer not to add yet another interface for
something we don't need at this moment.