System Search Failed, ism format changed

[sbrown]

IS 2008 Basic msi project, I added a System Search for IE 6. If I build this on my development machine, no problems. On my build machine, Error IE 6 not found, terminate install. It took me awhile but if I open the 2 msi files in ORCA.
My Build machine has the following entry:
Tablesr Locator,Signature_:sigShdocvw, Parenthere there is a square which seems to translate to a CR), Path:[systemFolder], Depth:0

On my machine the same entry is completely blank in the Parent column.

If I look at the ism files:
Build machine:
<table name="DrLocator">
<col key="yes" def="s72">Signature_</col>
<col key="yes" def="S72">Parent</col>
<col key="yes" def="S255">Path</col>
<col def="I2">Depth</col>
<row>
<td>NewSignature11</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>[ProgramFilesFolder]</td>
<td>10</td>
</row>
<row>
<td>sigShdocvw</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>[WindowsFolder]</td>
<td>3</td>
</row>
</table>

My machine:
<table name="DrLocator">
<col key="yes" def="s72">Signature_</col>
<col key="yes" def="S72">Parent</col>
<col key="yes" def="S255">Path</col>
<col def="I2">Depth</col>
<row><td>NewSignature11</td><td></td><td>[ProgramFilesFolder]</td><td>10</td></row>
<row><td>sigShdocvw</td><td></td><td>[WindowsFolder]</td><td>3</td></row>
</table>


I have to modify my ISm files to change a property before building the Release. I have used C# with XmlDocument and TFS with Regex. Both of them change the format.

Any ideas?

[MichaelU]

Can the modifications you need to make be done with InstallShield's automation? That should avoid unexpected changes to the XML format that hold semantic meaning to InstallShield.

[sbrown]

Last night I remembered that when I added the modification to use MSBuild regular expression I forgot to remove the xmldocument modification. The regular expression works fine, it was the xmldocument that changed the format.
Thanks