access registry key values using xslt

[Ankit.Hegde]

Hi, I am new to XSLT.I am facing the need to access some registry key values using xslt ( withing xsl style sheets) and provide the values to the respective output nodes.I would like to know if it is possible and if so how to proceed. Thanks in advance

[boen_robot]

Um... XSLT can only acces XML files. By using entities in those files (or the unparsed-text() XSLT 2.0 function) you can read text files and put certain values from them in the output.As for registry entries... as far as I'm aware, they are not text files, nor they can be opened like such, so no: you can't do that with XSLT. What you can do is to create a script to fetch that data by other means and pass the results as parameter(s) to the stylesheet, where they can be handled.

[Ankit.Hegde]

Hi, Thanks for the reply. That did help me understand some important thumb rules.