Have you ever had an XML file that looks like crap?<\/p>\n
The problem is that XML is sorta the data encoding equivalent of Shimmer<\/a> – sometimes its an encoding for programs and sometimes its an encoding for users.<\/p>\n Our PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell pointed out that the output of Export-CLIXML looked like cra…. errrrrr …. well let’s just say that was “programmer oriented”. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n Its true, we were thinking about programs consuming our XML not users. You’ll find lots of XML like that in the world (one reason is that it saves a ton of space by eliminating whitespaces).<\/p>\n So if you ever have a file like that and want to be able to read it, you’ll want FORMAT-XML:<\/p>\n function Format-XML ([xml]$xml, $indent=2) Use it like this:<\/p>\n PS> Format-XML ([xml](cat c:\\ps\\r_and_j.xml)) -indent 4<\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/p>\n UPDATE: <\/strong><\/p>\n Lee Holmes points out that page 153 of his CookBook<\/a> has an even simpler example:<\/p>\n gps powershell | Export-CliXml c:\\temp\\powershell.xml<\/span><\/p>\n $xml = [xml] (gc c:\\temp\\powershell.xml)<\/span><\/p>\n $xml.Save([Console]::Out)<\/span><\/p>\n Nicely done Lee!<\/p>\n Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Have you ever had an XML file that looks like crap? The problem is that XML is sorta the data encoding equivalent of Shimmer – sometimes its an encoding for programs and sometimes its an encoding for users. Our PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell pointed out that the output of Export-CLIXML looked like cra…. errrrrr …. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Have you ever had an XML file that looks like crap? The problem is that XML is sorta the data encoding equivalent of Shimmer – sometimes its an encoding for programs and sometimes its an encoding for users. Our PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell pointed out that the output of Export-CLIXML looked like cra…. errrrrr …. […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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