Convert XML to PSObject

Question

Note: I\'m using ConvertTo-XML and cannot use Export-Clixml:

I create a simple PSObject:

$a = New-Object PSObj         


        

Answer 1

You can do this pretty easily with XPath. Although PowerShell usually makes working with XML pretty simple, in this case I think the format using strictly PowerShell syntax would be pretty gross.

filter XmlProperty([String]$Property) {
    $_.SelectSingleNode("/Objects/Object/Property[@Name='$Property']").InnerText
}

$Name = $b | Xmlproperty Name
$Server = $b | XmlProperty Server
# etc...

EDIT: To generically do this for an XML document that contains one or more Object elements, you can do something like this:

function ConvertFrom-Xml($XML) {
    foreach ($Object in @($XML.Objects.Object)) {
        $PSObject = New-Object PSObject
        foreach ($Property in @($Object.Property)) {
            $PSObject | Add-Member NoteProperty $Property.Name $Property.InnerText
        }
        $PSObject
    }
}

ConvertFrom-Xml $b