{"id":2017,"date":"2014-02-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/02\/11\/powertip-use-powershell-to-edit-xml-file\/"},"modified":"2014-02-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-edit-xml-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-edit-xml-file\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Edit XML File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to load an XML file for easy editing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;Hey Scripting Guy! Is there an easy way to load and edit an XML file in Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;It&rsquo;s so easy that you might miss it if you blink. Create an XML object. With that, you can load, save, and edit properties directly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$XMLfile=NEW-OBJECT XML<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$XMLfile=load(&ldquo;MyXMLFile.XML&rdquo;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$XMLFile.property.otherproperty=&rdquo;Gibberish&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$XMLFile.save(&ldquo;MyXMLFile.XML&rdquo;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to load an XML file for easy editing. &nbsp;Hey Scripting Guy! Is there an easy way to load and edit an XML file in Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;It&rsquo;s so easy that you might miss it if you blink. Create an XML object. With that, you can load, save, and edit properties directly: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to load an XML file for easy editing. &nbsp;Hey Scripting Guy! Is there an easy way to load and edit an XML file in Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;It&rsquo;s so easy that you might miss it if you blink. Create an XML object. With that, you can load, save, and edit properties directly: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}