XmlToReg - Convert registry provisioning files to .reg files

[AlexVallat]

There are several tools available for converting .reg files to xml registry provisioning files, but none for going in the other direction. Admittedly, not quite so common a requirement, but could still come in handy.

This is a Windows command line tool which accepts an xml registry provisioning file as the only command line argument (just drop the .xml file on the .exe), and produces a .reg file next to it, in RegEdit v5 Unicode format.

Comments, suggestions, and bug reports all welcome.

Alex

Updates:

0.2:
Now supports empty values for String, MultiString and Binary values


.NET Framework (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6) (required)

[Ameet]

There are several tools available for converting .reg files to xml registry provisioning files, but none for going in the other direction. Admittedly, not quite so common a requirement, but could still come in handy.

This is a Windows command line tool which accepts an xml registry provisioning file as the only command line argument (just drop the .xml file on the .exe), and produces a .reg file next to it, in RegEdit v5 Unicode format.

Comments, suggestions, and bug reports all welcome.

Alex

.NET Framework (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6) (required)

Brilliant Alex. Simply brilliant :)

[asango]

Hi Alex,

wow, I think it took only 2 days from when I told you about my idea until you turned it into a usable solution!
Congratulations and a big thank!

One thing that occurred when I tested with some of my xml files (seems that I've always got the strangest testing files one can imagine...)

<characteristic type="Registry">
<characteristic type="HKLM\Comm\TIACXWLN1\Parms\TCPIP">
<parm name="WINS" value="" datatype="multiplestring"/>
</characteristic>
</characteristic>

The empty string value="" leads to a conversion abortion.
Maybe you can build in a fix for such a situation?

Thank you very much again for turning this into reality and I'll let you know in case i'll find anything else that needs to be fixed if you don't mind!

[AlexVallat]

Thanks for pointing that out, I hadn't considered empty values. I don't think an empty value is valid for a numeric or boolean data type, but there's no reason a string or binary value shouldn't be empty. Version 0.2 should handle them properly, and is now available in the first post.

Alex

[frauhottelmann]

First, it's great that you made this app! But, I am having an issue with this.
I don't know why, but it doesn't make a real reg file. I just get an empty one!
I am attaching the provxml I tried it with!

[AlexVallat]

That provxml isn't a registry provisioning file. It claims to be a "Metabase" provisioning file, which is one I'm not familiar with. It does seem to contain registry data, though, just not in the Registry provisioning format. What produced this file?

[frauhottelmann]

Too bad. This is a provxml for a language SYS package for a WM 6.1 Standard ROM. I wanted to make CABs out of the packages, because not all languages fit in one ROM and I don't want to male 3 ROMs just for all languages. Unfortunately if I don't add the information of this file, not everything gets translated :(
Thanks for your help!

[krazy_about_technology]

Thanks for this great tool buddy. I was looking for it since long ago. :)

[Nokser]

Good app THX

[irus]

Great app Thanks