[libsmi] smidump generating invalid XML output for RFC1158 mib

16 Dec 2013


      Dear list users,
I am trying to dump a MIB to XML using smidump (v0.4.8) but the output provides invalid XML.
The MIB in question is: http://www.snmplink.org/OnLineMIB/Standards/index.html#124 (RFC1158-MIB, "rfc 1158 MIB-II.mib").
Some sources do have syntax errors (like missing comma's) which I corrected in the source file already. The XML output from smidump however is invalid XML. It generates the following XML e.g.:
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   <table name="ipNetToMediaTable" oid="1.3.6.1.2.1.4.22" status="mandatory">
      <description>
          ...
      </description>
      <row name="ipNetToMediaEntry" oid="1.3.6.1.2.1.4.22.1" status="mandatory">
        <linkage>
        </linkage>
        <description>
            ...
        </description>
    <scalar name="ipNetToMediaIfIndex" oid="1.3.6.1.2.1.4.22.1.1" status="mandatory">
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As can be seen in this example, the <row> tag is never closed and neither is the <table> tag. This is not the only occurance though and happends several times in this same file. This means I can not parse the XML output and also means I'm missing data. Is this a known bug? Is there a workaround? Or am I doing something wrong?
With kind regards,
Peter Postma