PowerShell Examples Tutorials

PowerShell XML XPath Examples - 2

In the last article, we gave a simple introduction on Select-XML cmdlet and its importance in querying XML data in Powershell. We explained this cmdlet with basic XPath example, with our sample XML. This tutorial focuses on some advanced examples of this cmdlet. We will use the same XML that we used in the last scenario. So, make sure you have a copy of the XML and you have loaded the XML ....

Powershell Read XML File Example Tutorial

I was going through the features of Powershell today and was fascinated by the XML handling capabilities of the tool. In this tutorial, I'm going to provide a very basic example of reading an XML document stored in the hard disk into Powershell and print the content to the console. Once we are done reading an XML document, I will explain how to query an XML document for the content we are ....

Search XML Attributes PowerShell XPath

In this Powershell tutorial on XML, we will discuss how to search XML and extract specific nodes, by searching XML attributes. We will use the select-Xml cmdlet for doing this, however the XPath query would be at an attribute level. Using the examples provided in this tutorial, you should be able to easily query XML data in Powershell and use the output values. 1.Input XML with Attributes ....

Powershell Search XML Attributes Example - Part 3

We have been discussing about the Search-Xml cmdlet in depth so far, and in this part of the series, we will see some more advanced XPath examples in Powershell. When you run through these, you will appreciate the great flexibility that you have in this command line utility to search and process XML data. We will be using a slightly different XML for this example, one with attributes. So you ....

PowerShell Select-Xml Cmdlet XPath Example

In this example, we are going to explain how to select data from XML over an XPATH in PowerShell with some basic examples. We have discussed how to read XML data in Powershell, print data on the screen and update XML data earlier. XPATH gives an administrator more power to apply conditional logic on XML and select specific data that you are searching for. We will use Select-XML cmdlet to query ....

Powershell Change XML file Tutorial

This tutorial focusses on modifying / updating an XML in Powershell command line. We will provide a simple XML to start with and describe how easily you can manipulate them in Powershell, by following some simple commands. You will need Powershell version 2 or higher to run the examples provided in this article. Also, make sure you read our tutorials on reading XML from file and simple XML ....

PowerShell Parse XML Simple Examples

In the previous example, we examined how to load XML data from a file into Powershell and do a simple print of the XML nodes. In this short article, we will extend the example and see how to parse the XML file we loaded. We will use the same XML file that we used in the previous article. If we want to try some complex examples, we will modify the document as required and provide you an updated ....