Re: Config files To XML

[quester]

If I recall correctly, the Cisco commands "write memory" and "copy running-config..." always indent child nodes by one space. I never wrote anything that depended on the indentation, but it certainly looked consistent enough to use in parsing the files. YMMV.

For example, this is a fragment of a lab router config for a 7200:

interface FastEthernet1/0
 no ip address
 duplex full
!
interface FastEthernet1/0.1
 encapsulation dot1Q 1 native
 ipv6 address xxxx:1::3/48
 ipv6 traffic-filter lab-only in
 ipv6 ospf 1 area 0
!
gatekeeper
 shutdown
!
!
line con 0
 stopbits 1
line aux 0
 stopbits 1

So "no ip address" and "duplex full" are child nodes of "interface FastEthernet1/0" because they are indented farther to the right.

There are a few cases where second-level child nodes exist and are indented by two spaces, but I don't have any examples handy. Oh, and by the way, don't try to use the exclamation points in parsing; they are not nearly as consistent as the spacing.