Windows Registry XML

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.