Question

I have an XML in the format:

<val:root>
   <bla>
     <value>1234</value>
</val:root>

I can do get-content of the file to an $xml variable, but I’m having trouble with the “val:root”.

Thanks for any help!

Edit:

I tried $xml.”val:root”, $xml.val, $xml.’val:root’ and $xml.{val:root}. Found the solution in Mizo’s answer:

$xml.root.value

Answer 1

Your XML file is missing a declaration for the val namespace. Also, the <bla> element is unterminated.

• Place a namespace declaration in the <root> element:

  <val:root xmlns:val="urn:dummy">
  

  Then you can do

   PS C:\> $xml = [xml] (get-content test.xml)
   PS C:\Users\mizo\test> $xml.root.value
   1234
  

• If you don’t have control over the XML data, you can declare the val namespace in a dummy root as a workaround:

  $xml = [xml] ("<dummyroot xmlns:val='urn:dummy'>" +
                (get-content test.xml) +
                "</dummyroot>")
  

  Then you can access the elements:

  PS C:\> $xml.dummyroot.root.value
  1234
  

Replace urn:dummy with a relevant identifier if you wish.