Re: [Libguestfs] hivex: some issues (key encoding, ...) and suggested fixes

On 26/02/11 18:56, Török Edwin wrote: > [...] > 4. hivexml output is not a well-formed XML > > See problem #1 and #2, if value_string and node_name are fixed to not > dump the binary garbage and just return UTF8 then I think hivexml's > output would pass xmllint. As it happens, I opened a BZ on this just the other day. I think there's an additional element here: it seems that sometimes a registry key genuinely contains non-text data. An example is HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/MSDTC/Security/XAKey, which I'm guessing is a cryptographic key. This would require a CDATA section. However, it's not clear to me how the tool can reliably infer that a value is binary data without specific knowledge of the schema.