select-xml

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for openers, how do I post sample xml to this forum? the “pre” stuff isn’t working for me.

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easiest way is to use gist

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so here is some xml. it’s an RDG file from microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection Manager.

assume $xml = [xml](get-content testrdg.rdg)

$xml.rdcman.file.group.server.name returns “testserver”.

$xml.selectnode(“//rdcman/file/group/server/name”) returns nothing
$xml | select-xml -XPath “//rdcman/file/server/properties/name” returns nothing

I’ve read that this has to do with “namespace,” and I have to define a namespace. but I don’t see a namespace defined in that xml, so I don’t know how to decide what namespace to tell powershell to use.

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crickets?

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XPath is case-sensitive.

Using your example XML, these work.

Select-Xml -Xml $xml -XPath "//RDCMan/file/group/server/properties/name"
$xml.SelectNodes("//RDCMan/file/group/server/properties/name")