In this article we will be seeing how to read an xml file in powershell 2010.

In this we will be creating a simple xml file and we will be reading the xml file in the powershell.

Test.xml

 <? Xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
 <customers>
<Name>Anand</Name>
 <Id>123</Id>
 <Age>23</Age>
 <Location>Bangalore</Location>
 </customers>

Get the content from the xml file:

 [Xml]$xmldata=Get-Content C:\Users\kpast\Desktop\Test.xml

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Get all the nodes:

 $xmldata.customers

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Get a particular node:

 $xmldata.customers.Name

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Assign the xml value to a variable:

 $variable=$xmldata.customers.Name

Result:

 $variable will be equal to Anand.