[Open-scap] C++ Library

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Oct 18 13:12:29 UTC 2012


On Thursday, October 18, 2012 08:02:32 AM Thomas R. Jones wrote:
> I am new the openscap community. I happened upon it due to some bugs I
> found in the current content in the opensuse package. Anyways, while
> compiling the bug listing, I decided to further help.
> 
> So one of yet another set or projects began, structurally sound
> libraries for processing OVAL.
> 
> I have developed/generated a complete XML binding to every version of
> the OVAL standard using c++. Elements and enumerations. The library
> works well and I am in the process of developing a programmatic
> generation of the 8,000+ "package" database that I submitted to the
> Mitre OVAL standard years ago for opensuse/suse/novell.
> 
> I will be on an assignment out of country; but have also began an
> implementation of the CPE standard XML Bindings. I am wondering if
> anyone would like to work towards implementation of ALL the openscap
> standards using c++ XML bindings in one library?

Not sure I understand your request. Are you layering a C++ library on top of 
openscap or implementing a completely new library that replaces openscap?

-Steve




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