XML

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 6

Bartek Bielawski
2 Min To Read
02 Jul, 2014
- Xml
- Tips and tricks

When we analyze XML documents with XPath we may need information about number of certain items. For example, we can have an XHTML document with several tables and we can easily check which tables contain rows with ‘class’ attribute:

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 5

Bartek Bielawski
2 Min To Read
01 Jul, 2014
- Xml
- Tips and tricks

XPath has one big disadvantage–it’s case sensitive. Unlike regular expressions, there is no way to “turn it off”. But there is a way around it.

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 4

Bartek Bielawski
2 Min To Read
30 Jun, 2014
- Xml
- Tips and tricks

Filtering using XPath is not limited to queries that make sure that existing value is equal to value that we are interested in.

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 3

Bartek Bielawski
2 Min To Read
26 Jun, 2014
- Tips and tricks
- Xml

Filtering data with XPath works very well even if we need more complex filters that require information from different levels in the XML document.

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 2

Bartek Bielawski
2 Min To Read
25 Jun, 2014
- Tips and tricks
- Xml

XPath can be used to apply ‘filter left’ philosophy to XML documents. For example we can find any h1 element with ‘title’ id using the following syntax:

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 1

Bartek Bielawski
2 Min To Read
24 Jun, 2014
- Tips and tricks
- Xml

This is the first tip in a series of Select-Xml/XPath tips. Working with XML documents in PowerShell is relatively easy. For most things it is enough to read XML file and convert it to XmlDocument object using XML type accelerator:

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