Creating and editing translation tables

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Creating and editing translation tables

Like formats, translation tables allow you to change the output of WMIC commands to suit your needs. Translation tables are not as flexible or powerful as formats, but they are much simpler to create and edit.

Translation tables are used when you specify /TRANSLATE on the LIST or GET verbs. WMIC includes translation tables called BasicXML and NoComma. BasicXML converts the HTML symbols for greater-than and less-than characters into the actual characters.

Translation tables are defined in the MSFT_CliTranslateTable WMI class.

For more information, see Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line.