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Asked: 2026-05-17T16:24:47+00:00

I have defined an XML string using $str = <a><b></b></a> Now I want to

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I have defined an XML string using

$str = "<a><b></b></a>"

Now I want to load it into a [xml] variable to be able to manipulate it’s nodes etc.
The row below results in an error…

$str = [xml]"<a><b></b></a>"

How do I do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The code in your question seems to work for me. I just added test inside my string to show I can access the value, but it should work without it, too.

    Yes I added test, but you can see my example worked
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    Casting a string also worked for me:

    Again, I added test to show that I can access XML members
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    …and I ran it with your string and it worked fine…
    ...notice there was an empty return?
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