Question

I’m learning PowerShell. I can load an xml file into a variable and manipulate it. I can then call the object’s save method to save to disk. I expected there to be a way to output the resulting xml to screen, though. I can’t seem to find one. Is there a way, other than outputting to file and then file-to-screen?

Answer 1

Look at PSCX module. You will find Format-Xml cmdlet that does exactly that.

Example:

Import-Module pscx
$xml = [xml]'<root><so><user name="john">thats me</user><user name="jane">do you like her?</user></so></root>'
Format-Xml -InputObject $xml

will produce:

<root>
  <so>
    <user name="john">thats me</user>
    <user name="jane">do you like her?</user>
  </so>
</root>

For more info look at help format-xml -full