> anyway why would the value of select . output this to 
> me? 

output what?

inside
<xsl:for-each select="win-registry-data/data">
the current node is the data node, and (I think) you want the value of
that node.  "." stands for the current node.

> Why does it give me this piece?
> NullSessionPipestrueREG_MULTI_SZ 

It doesn't, 

I wrote:
...
  <xsl:for-each select="win-registry-data/data">
  <td>
...
  </td>

so it generates a sequence of <td> elements.
so it won't generate a string with no markup.

David

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