[RFE] scap-workbench: Add "Save as datastream (DS)" output format option about scap-workbench HOT 3 OPEN

Should this be available for XCCDF 1.1 input files? These can't be put into source datastreams, validation fails with them in.

Doing this for XCCDf 1.2 should be fairly easy but I am afraid not very useful. Most content providers seem to ship XCCDF 1.1 and OVAL separately and SDS with XCCDF 1.2 as an alternative. So for XCCDF 1.2 they already ship a datastream and for XCCDF 1.1 we can't simply create one without doing some sort of a conversion.

I would prefer not to give scap-workbench a new job of converting XCCDF from 1.1 to 1.2.

IMO effort is better spent on #7 if we want remove scanning for plain XCCDF 1.1 files. It's not a trivial ticket though.

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Reply by Jan Lieskovsky:
Hi Martin,

agree this one is alternative for #147 one. Either one of them to be implemented works for me(feel free to choose that one constituting less work). Basically the idea / sample use case is:

download sample 3-rd party content in the form of XCCDF + OVAL (but more generally don't care about the format the benchmark is provided in), try to scan remote system with that content.

USGCB content for RHEL-5 Desktop might serve as an example for such a request.

Thanks, Jan.

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It seems like this issue and #50 should be merged?

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