11. A computer-readable medium containing contents that, when executed, causes a computing system to perform a method comprising: in response to detecting an operation performed on at least one entry of a first directory data repository, the operation specified in accordance with an input data format, automatically executing a processor, configured, when executed, to: determine one or more stored XSLT stylesheet definitions for transforming directory data in the input data format to directory data in an output data format, the output data format being different from the input data format; automatically generate a representation in the output data format of the operation performed on the at least one entry of the first directory data repository such that the operation can be automatically replicated using the output data format; and wherein the input data format is specified in accordance with an LDAP directory protocol and the output data format is specified in accordance with an Active Directory protocol and the method performs automatic replication of an LDAP directory to an Active Directory directory.
11. A computer-readable medium containing contents that, when executed, causes a computing system to perform a method comprising: in response to detecting an operation performed on at least one entry of a first directory data repository, the operation specified in accordance with an input data format, automatically executing a processor, configured, when executed, to: determine one or more stored XSLT stylesheet definitions for transforming directory data in the input data format to directory data in an output data format, the output data format being different from the input data format; automatically generate a representation in the output data format of the operation performed on the at least one entry of the first directory data repository such that the operation can be automatically replicated using the output data format; and wherein the input data format is specified in accordance with an LDAP directory protocol and the output data format is specified in accordance with an Active Directory protocol and the method performs automatic replication of an LDAP directory to an Active Directory directory. 19. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises: decrypting encrypted parameters passed to an XSLT processor.