xccdfparser

Extensible parser for XCCDF Benchmark/Result XML files.

pip install xccdfparser

Produces a human-readable JSON from an incomprehensible XCCDF schema/result file:

For every TestResult tag in the input file,

• Benchmark Details

  • Benchmark ID
  • Rule ID
  • Title/Description
  • Fixtext

• Dictionary

  • Metadata
    • Timestamp
    • Target Machine
    • IP address(es)
    • XCCDF Domain
  • Results
    • Rule ID
    • Value

To run the parser on a file input.xml, just use:

xccdfparser -o output.json input.xml

OR

xccdfparser input.xml

Testing xccdfparser

To test the pre-built tox environments:

First, install tox if you don't have it:

pip install tox

Then in the package directory:

tox

Or for a specific environment:

tox -e py36