{"id":9541,"date":"2006-10-06T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2006\/10\/06\/adding-elements-to-xml-objects-with-windows-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:21:17","slug":"adding-elements-to-xml-objects-with-windows-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/adding-elements-to-xml-objects-with-windows-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding elements to XML objects with Windows PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While it\u2019s very easy to load and view the content of XML documents how do you add new elements? Here\u2019s how:<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s create a simple XML document, one parent node with two children:<\/p>\n

PS> [xml]$x = \u201c<top><\/span><\/p>\n

<first>first child<\/first><\/span><\/p>\n

<second>second child<\/second><\/span><\/p>\n

   <\/span><\/top>\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

PS> $x.top<\/span><\/p>\n

first                                   <\/span>second
—–                                   <\/span>——
first child                             <\/span>second child<\/span><\/p>\n

Add a new element below our top element with textual content:<\/p>\n

PS> $e = $x.CreateElement(“third”)
PS> $e.set_InnerText(“third child”)<\/span><\/p>\n

(Windows PowerShell wraps .Net object properties with method calls. The method set_InnerText actually refers to the .Net property InnerText, and is required because our XML adapter assumes that all properties come from your XML)<\/span><\/p>\n

PS> $x.top.AppendChild($e)<\/span><\/p>\n

What does our XML look like now?<\/span><\/p>\n

PS> $x.top<\/span><\/p>\n

first                      <\/span>second                     <\/span>third
—–                      <\/span>——                     <\/span>—–
first child                <\/span>second child               <\/span>third child<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s it!<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nigel Sharples [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell Team
<\/span>Microsoft Corporation
This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

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While it\u2019s very easy to load and view the content of XML documents how do you add new elements? Here\u2019s how: Let\u2019s create a simple XML document, one parent node with two children: PS> [xml]$x = \u201c<top> <first>first child<\/first> <second>second child<\/second>    <\/top>\u201d PS> $x.top first                                   second—–                                   ——first child                             second child Add a new element below […]<\/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-9541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

While it\u2019s very easy to load and view the content of XML documents how do you add new elements? Here\u2019s how: Let\u2019s create a simple XML document, one parent node with two children: PS> [xml]$x = \u201c<top> <first>first child<\/first> <second>second child<\/second>    <\/top>\u201d PS> $x.top first                                   second—–                                   ——first child                             second child Add a new element below […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541","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=9541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/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=9541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}