Introduction
In Power Automate, at times we must work on strings that have XML values. We can use the XML function in power automate to convert a string value to XML and perform related operations. As an example, an XML string is used here to send a notification to the required person.
Step 1
Login to the required Power Apps environment using URL make.powerapps.com by providing username and password and clicking on Flows on the left-hand side as shown in the below figure.
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Step 2
After step 1, Click on New Flow and select instant cloud flow and provide the trigger as Manually trigger a flow and click on Create as shown in the below figure.
![Usage of XML Function in Power Automate]()
Step 3
After step 2, name flow as XML Function and take initialize variable and name it as Set XMLString variable with XML with the following fields
Name : XMLString
Type : String
Value :
<notification>
<to>Venkat</to>
<from>AdminTeam</from>
<heading>Welcome Message </heading>
<body>Welcome onboard </body>
</notification>
as shown in the below figure.
![Usage of XML Function in Power Automate]()
Step 4
After step 3, take compose function and name it as Covert XMLString variable to XML and provide input value under expression tab,
xml(value:string)
and provide value as,
xml(variables('XMLString'))
and click on ok/update as shown in the below figure.
![Usage of XML Function in Power Automate]()
Step 5
After step 4, save and run the flow and observe the result as shown in the below figure.
![Usage of XML Function in Power Automate]()
Note
- Make sure to save and run the flow whenever you try expressions.
- MS documentation is found here
Conclusion
In this way, we can use the XML function so that provided XML string can be converted to the required XML in power automate easily.