Question

Note: has to be done in powershell.
I have searched and searched and have this one little problem that I can not seem to solve.
The page is in an unusual form of xml, and looks like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
<string xmlns="http://foo.bar.moo.org/">WILBER</string>

This is the only thing on the page. the only part that will ever change is WILBER might be something else.

I have tried:

$site="http://lalaland.org/Getmoocow?input=$foo_name"
$data = (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString($site)
$foo = [regex]::Matches($data, '<string.*?>(.+)</string>') | % {$_.Captures[0].Groups[1].value} 

and a few varients but no luck. the only thing I need is is what is located between the string tags

Answer 1

So, given the string that you presented,

[xml]$x = @"
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>> <string xmlns="http://foo.bar.moo.org/">WILBER</string>
>> "@
>>
$x.string.'#text'
WILBER