Change profile title and description

[Yesser-Belhajali]

hello everyone,I have a question concerning the struct xccdf_profile,is it possible for me to load an already existing tailoring profile and change its title and description,in the API i found xccdf_profile_add_title adn xccdf_profile_add_description but is it possible to change them(either modifying the existing ones or completely removing them and adding new ones)?
I have thought of a solution of adding new ones to the profile in memory and extracting the tailoring file this way the same profile is going to have two <title> tags hoping that the last one "wins" but i don't know if that would work

[identity-wael]

You can modify the existing oscap_text objects rather than appending a second title. xccdf_profile_get_title() gives you an iterator, and oscap_text_set_text() changes each text object's content:

struct oscap_text_iterator *it = xccdf_profile_get_title(profile);
while (oscap_text_iterator_has_more(it)) {
    struct oscap_text *text = oscap_text_iterator_next(it);
    oscap_text_set_text(text, "Updated profile title");
}
oscap_text_iterator_free(it);

Use xccdf_profile_get_description(profile) with the same pattern for the description, then export the tailoring document as usual. The text objects belong to the profile; free the iterator, not each returned text object.

The example updates all existing titles. If your profile has different languages, select the appropriate text using oscap_text_get_lang() instead of replacing every translation with the same string. If the iterator is empty, use the add_title/add_description functions you already found to create the missing entry.

The declarations are in xccdf_benchmark.h and oscap_text.h. Multiple title elements can represent language alternatives, so I would not rely on “last title wins.”