Accessing external entity of an xml document from powershell

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I am new to powershell and i am trying to access external entity of an xml document from powershell. Originally I have a document that looks as follows:

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>

<note>

<to>Tove</to>

<from>Jani</from>

<heading>Reminder</heading>

<body>

<par1>Don’t forget me this weekend!</par1>

</body>

</note>

this document is saved with file name mymessage.txt and i can access the content of par1 tag from powershell as

$xmlFileName = 'E:\mymessage.txt'
[xml]$xmlDoc = Get-Content $xmlFileName
Write-Host $xmlDoc.note.body.par1

This works fine. Now I want to breakdown the xml document into two. This is basically by accessing the second xml file as external entity. I put the body part in separate file called mymessage_body.txt and it looks

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DOCTYPE body [
  <!ELEMENT body (par1)>
  <!ELEMENT par1 (#PCDATA)>
]>  
<body>
  <par1>Don't forget me this weekend!</par1>
</body>

Similarly i put the header part in another file (called mymessage_header.txt ) and it looks

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE note [
  <!ELEMENT note ANY>
  <!ELEMENT to (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT from (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT heading (#PCDATA)>
  <!ENTITY body SYSTEM "mymessage_body.txt">
]>
<note>
  <to>Tove</to>
  <from>Jani</from>
  <heading>Reminder</heading>
   &body;
</note>

Now i tried to access the content of par1 from powershell as shown below and it returns nothing.

$xmlFileName = 'E:\mymessage_header.txt'
[xml]$xmlDoc = Get-Content $xmlFileName
Write-Host $xmlDoc.note.body.par1

I want to know weather the external entity is properly loaded or not. Would you please forward your suggestion in resolving this? Thanks!

2

Your XML file does not look valid one …
You need to have valid XML File First

 

Thanks,
Nitesh

3

Xml files don’t display right here. You can share it from gist.