Select-Xml is a powershell cmdlet that finds a text in xml documents.
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PowerShell select-xml xpath doesn't seem to work
I'm trying to use select-xml to root out a few things from a SharePoint solution. I have a solution directory that contains a number of features, and rather than open each feature.xml and select names of features by hand and put them in a list, I…
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Surgical XML editing with Powershell
I'm working with csproj files using Powershell to perform large-scale editing of project references. So far I've managed to edit the Include attributes on ProjectReferences using the following lines:
$projectXml = [xml](Get-Content…
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Xpath not operator in Select-Xml via Powershell
I'm working with csproj files, and I'm trying to write a cmdlet that extracts all of the files referenced by a project file. This will include all of the Compile, EmbeddedResource, Resource, Content, and None elements (more importantly, their…
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Analyse XML file with powershell script
I've got a xml log file. The file looks like this:
Warning
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How to load or read an XML file using ConvertTo-Xml and Select-Xml?
How can I accomplish something like this:
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> $date=(Get-Date | ConvertTo-Xml)
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> $date
xml …
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How to query XAML file with Powershell's `select-xml` commandlet?
I'm trying to use the select-xml cmdlet in Powershell to query some XAML files in my .NET project. Here's what I've tried:
select-xml -content (cat $xaml_file_path) -xpath "//GroupBox"
Where $xaml_file_path is simply a string containing the file…
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Powershell - XML - How do I extract multiple values from various depths per node family
I've got several million lines of xml to parse.
For one application I am looking to extract 3 pieces of data for use in other scripts.
The xml looks something like the following (several dozen tags have been removed per grouping)
I can change one of…
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Select-Xml returns file name
When parsing my *.csproj using Select-Xml, besides from the expected output i also get a concat of a parameter.
What is going on here?
$version = Select-Xml -Path $projectFilePath -XPath "/Project/PropertyGroup/Version"
Write-Host…
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In Powershell how do I get Select-Xml to search multiple Nodes
So I got to say that I m new to using PowerShell for parsing out XML. With that said, how to do I combine multiple -XPath So that I can finishing building out my expression report. Please let me know, I have tried several combinations and none of…
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Trying to get XML element
Here is a piece of XML file from which I want to extract the IP Address (here 172.31.24.8) using PowerShell code:
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Find XML attributes at random
How can I find the 2 attributes $_.CompleteName and $_.Channel at random?
+ $channel | ? {$liste} | get-random <<<< -min 0 -max $liste.list.groupe.count
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (position:PSObject) [Get-Random
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How to use Select-Xml cmdlet to parse XML from external source?
I'm trying to use Select-Xml to parse XML from SQL server.
I have a sql query which gives me an XML string ($Query) and I want to sum up all "Users" values from this XML.
My script works perfectly if I use external file for "-Path".
But I don't know…
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I can't get my Powershell script to save multiple change to my xml file
I try to change 2 innertext in my xml file but it will only save one of the changes when I run the save command. I can't figure out to save both innertext back to the xml file.
Is there anybody that can help me ?
Here is my code:
Clear-Host
$Path =…
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how to use the cmdlet Select-Xml interactive prompt?
How is Select-Xml used as below:
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> Select-Xml
cmdlet Select-Xml at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Xml[0]: ./bookstore.xml
Xml[1]:
XPath:…
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How to use Select-Xml in Powershell to print the content of an xml node element?
restricted to xpath or even Select-Xml how else are the book titles printed?
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> Select-Xml "./bookstore.xml" -XPath "/bookstore/book/title" | foreach {$_.node.InnerXML}
Pride And…
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