On 04/05/2013 09:08 PM, Francisco Slavin wrote:
If all of the bash scripts will live within one XCCDF XML file, each
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in discrete <fix> tags, I'm not sure what approach the community
would like to take regarding function re-use. It seems like some
pre-processing may be necessary; i.e. resolve the source operator
before inserting the script content into the <fix> tag. The goal is
to only have one copy of a specific function saved in the SSG repo
but to be able to use it for multiple <fix>es which differ only in
one parameter.
Maybe the text substitution of <plain-text> could be considered for this
task. According to NISTIR-7275r4, the <xccdf:sub> element within
<xccdf:fix> may refer to the <xccdf:plain-text> element.
Hence, SSG may use plain-text elements for definition of common scripts
or functions. And only refer to such single plain-text from all of the
Rules.
The example of <plain-text> usage is in OpenSCAP unittests at:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/openscap.git/tree/tests/API/XCCDF/unitte...
and
http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/openscap.git/tree/tests/API/XCCDF/unitte...
Best regards,
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Simon Lukasik
Security Technologies