Windows registry xml

Microsoft's .reg format for representing MS Registry entries has many limitations, such as the inability to represent where registry information physically resides on the disk and the difficulty in representing Unicode. As a result, a variety of approaches have been implemented. Currently DFXML uses the RegXML standard to represent Registry entries.

See Also

There are several open source programs that use XML to represent the Windows Registry:

• registryasxml is a Windows GUI program that exports and imports section of the Windows Registry as XML-foramtted files.
• RegXML is also a Windows command-line utility that exports sections of the Windows Registry as XML-formatted files.
• hivexml is a command-line utility that is part of Red Hat's libguestfs that converts Registry hives to XML.
• Tracking Computer Use with the Windows® Registry Dataset, Doug White, NIST.
• The complete set of code and and a WiReD XML difference set for steganographic applications.

There is one commercial program that we have found:

• ComponentSource has a \$195 .NET too that allows management, importing and exporting of the registry via XML.