# Invoke-Rest method and XML CDATA?

**URL:** <https://forums.powershell.org/t/invoke-rest-method-and-xml-cdata/1195>\
**Category:** PowerShell Help\
**Created:** [December 31, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/invoke-rest-method-and-xml-cdata/1195 "2011-12-31T18:30:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/invoke-rest-method-and-xml-cdata/1195/1 "2011-12-31T18:30:00Z")

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by yooakim at 2012-08-15 01:20:27

> I am Learning PowerShell and love it more by every day. It’s simple and elegant! And I love the object pipeline, it makes stitching things togehter childs play (almost!)  
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> I have a question about using the Invoke-Rest method. I use it against a RSS feed. This particular RSS feed wraps the contents of title, description and other elements in `<title><![CDATA[Här är texten med lite specialare]]</title>`  
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> When I use this code  
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> `Invoke-RestMethod $url`  
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> Everything works but the result does not give me the content of the CDATA elements. I know I can use .innerText on these elements but am wondering if there is Another, easier, way to do this?  
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> Any suggestions of how to obtain content of CDATA elements?  
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> Cheers,  
> Joakim

by DougFinke at 2012-08-15 12:14:02

> Hi Joakim and thanks for the post.  
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> You should be able to get the content of the CDATA section this way.  
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> `(Invoke-RestMethod $url).Title.InnerText `  
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> Here’s the challenge, if the Title does not contain a CDATA section, this will print nothing.  
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> So, you’ll need to foreach over the results and check and either print the Title or Title.InnerText.  
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> Post the RSS feed url and we can take a look.  
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> Thanks  
> Doug

by yooakim at 2012-08-15 22:24:58

> Thanks, this is the URL I’m reading from:  
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> http://sverigesradio.se/api/rss/pod/4023  
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> I’m not sure why the keep encoding everything in CDATA since it is UTF-8 but they do… 😉  
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> /j

by DougFinke at 2012-08-16 04:31:26

> Yes, many sites do things differently with their feeds. The good news is, PowerShell is flexible enough so you don’t hit too many walls. Below are a couple ways you could process that feed. From a quick look, it seems they are all wrapped in CDATA sections.  
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> `Invoke-RestMethod http://sverigesradio.se/api/rss/pod/4023 | Select Pubdate, Author, @{Name=‘Title’; Expression={$.Title.InnerText}}`  
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> _`Invoke-RestMethod http://sverigesradio.se/api/rss/pod/4023 | ForEach { [PSCustomObject] @{ Pubdate = $`_`.pubdate Title = $.Title.InnerText Author = $.Author }}`

by yooakim at 2012-08-16 04:59:32

> With PowerShell v3.0 it’s so elegant! Thanks 🙂  
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> /joakim

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