XML Schema For MBSA Reports

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Published on 2009-11-24T19:04:21Z Indexed on 2012/11/15 17:04 UTC
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I'm in the process of creating a script to run the command line version of Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (mbsacli.exe) against all of our servers. Since the MBSA reports are provided as XML documents, I should be able to write a script or small program to parse the XML looking for errors / issues.

I'm wondering if anyone knows whether or not the XML schema for the MBSA reports is documented anywhere -- I have goggled this, and cant seem to find any trace of it. I've run across a few articles that address bits and pieces, but nothing that addresses the complete schema.

Yes, I could just reverse engineer the XML, but I would like to understand a little more about the meaning of some of the tags.

Thanks...

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