PowerShell supports XML as a native datatype. To create an XML
variable, cast a string to the [xml]
type:
$myXml = [xml] @" <AddressBook> <Person contactType="Personal"> <Name>Lee</Name> <Phone type="home">555-1212</Phone> <Phone type="work">555-1213</Phone> </Person> <Person contactType="Business"> <Name>Ariel</Name> <Phone>555-1234</Phone> </Person> </AddressBook> "@
PowerShell exposes all child nodes and attributes as properties, automatically grouping children that share the same node type:
Returns an object that contains a Person
property.
Returns a list of Person
nodes.
Each person node exposes 'contactType'
, Name
, and Phone
as properties.
Returns the first Person
node.
Returns Personal
as the contact
type of the first Person
node.
The XML
datatype wraps the
.NET XmlDocument
and XmlElement
classes. Unlike most PowerShell
.NET wrappers, this wrapper does not expose the properties from the
underlying class, because they may conflict with the dynamic
properties that PowerShell adds for node names.
To access properties of the underlying class, use the PsBase
property—for example:
See the section named “Working with the .NET Framework” to learn more about using PowerShell to interact with the .NET Framework.
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