[PATCH 0/4] support for alternate titles

Jeffrey Blank blank at eclipse.ncsc.mil
Tue Sep 4 13:56:39 UTC 2012


This commit set provides support for writing alternate titles for the Rules in
the XCCDF content in scap-security-guide. Although this defies a strategy of
leveraging a common body of high-quality SCAP content and incurs additional
costs, it was expressed as a necessity.

To synchronize an alternate titles file (currently only for the STIG profile):
$ make alt-titles

This will cause input/utils/sync-alt-titles.py to includes a placeholder for an
alternate Rule title for every Rule in the specified (currently only
stig-server) Profile. The short title is also included and synchronized as an
aide to data entry.

A new transform (xccdf-alt-titles.xslt) performs replacement of the concise,
broadly-acceptable title with whatever title language is desired instead.
Currently, this is activated in the Makerule table-stig.


Jeffrey Blank (4):
  new file (alt-titles-stig.xml) that enables entering alternate titles
    for Rules
  new transform to replace concise, broadly-acceptable titles with
    alternative titles in XCCDF
  helper script to create alternate titles files and link it to Rules
    in a XCCDF Profile      * short title is also synchronized as an
    aide to data entry
  added new Makerules to insert alternate titles, create STIG tables
    with them

 RHEL6/Makefile                            |   11 +-
 RHEL6/input/auxiliary/alt-titles-stig.xml |  455 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 RHEL6/transforms/xccdf-alt-titles.xslt    |   36 +++
 RHEL6/utils/sync-alt-titles.py            |   84 ++++++
 4 files changed, 584 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 RHEL6/input/auxiliary/alt-titles-stig.xml
 create mode 100644 RHEL6/transforms/xccdf-alt-titles.xslt
 create mode 100755 RHEL6/utils/sync-alt-titles.py



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