How to auto create the ruleset.xml file that is needed to deploy Java securely?

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I created scripts to fetch all the URLs in my environment, but now I am trying to determine how I can auto create an xml file that needs to be in the following format:

I have every URL that I need to place in the id location=“” portion of the xml file in a completely separate text file in a simple list format on separate lines, but I am at a loss as to how I go about telling PowerShell to read the URL in one file and then paste that in the id location=“” of my ruleset.xml file.

So, for each URL, I need to create a new line that contains a new set of <rule> </rule> tags as well as the id location and action permission inner tags.

Any help here would be much appreciated.

 

Thank you

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its doable, how are the URLs stored for each rule ? are those in separate files for each role ?

at high level,

#Get all the roles from XML, I suggest use
[XML]$XML = Get-Content -Path <path to rules xml>

# get the rules node, assuming there is a parent node rules and all rule nodes are under that parent node in xml
$Rules = $XML.SelectNodes("//rules/rule")

# Iterate for each rule in rules
Foreach($Rule in $Rules){
    # get the url for this rule and store in $Url variable
    $Rule.Id.Location = $Url
}

$XML.Save(<destination xml location>)
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The URLs are ALL in the same text file in a list format on separate lines.

I will give your script a whirl and let you know how it goes.

Thank you very much for your help, I appreciate it.