PowerShell Quick Tip: Reading an XML file

Say you have an XML data like below.

	<?xml version="1.0"?>
	<nodes>
	<node>
	<name>machine1</name>
	<ip>1.2.3.4</ip>
	</node>
	</nodes>

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To read the IP element in PowerShell, do:

	$xmlFile = "C:\Users\u1\Documents\sample_nodes.xml"
	$xmlDoc = [xml](Get-Content $xmlFile)
	$xmlDoc.nodes.node.ip

view raw ReadXml.ps1 hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Tags: PowerShell, Xml