PowerShell – Read an XML configuration file
I was recently asked a question about PowerShells ability to read in an XML configuration file at a Virtual Academy I ran last week. One of the strengths of PowerShell is its ability to perform lots of time saving tasks … one of which is reading in an XML file. The Get-Content command can read in an XML file and you can easily loop through the contents.
Example:
[xml]$computerlist = Get-Content computers.xml
foreach( $computer in $computerlist.computers.target)
{
Write-Host $computer.name
}
What would the XML file look like?
<computers>
<target>
<Name>server1</Name>
</target>
<target>
<Name>server2</Name>
</target>
</computers>
Nice and simple really.
