Comments on: Powershell: Working with XML part 2 http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2010/07/powershell-working-with-xml-part-2/ Just another private cloud weblog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:41:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nico de Jong http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2010/07/powershell-working-with-xml-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3558 Nico de Jong Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:21:42 +0000 http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=863#comment-3558 I'm searching but can find my answer - read this article still not clear. Problem is the following I have a an XML file with I want to loop through the scope rules and put the value from the xml into a variable. I already put a reference to the xml file in $xmlData with Get-Content cmdlet. $xmlData.ContentSourcesScopesRules.ScopeRules.Rule | ForEach-Object{ $ScopeName=$_.ScopeName $contentSourceName=$_.ContentSourceName When debugging I see the value of $_.ScopeName in the popup in Powershell ISE but when I then use the $ScopeName variable in another cmdlet it is empty. Do you have any idea how to get the xml value into a variable as a string? I tried some strongtyping of the variables but may some casting is needed... Thanks for any feedback - I know it is maybe better to ask in a forum .. I’m searching but can find my answer – read this article still not clear. Problem is the following

I have a an XML file with

I want to loop through the scope rules and put the value from the xml into a variable.
I already put a reference to the xml file in $xmlData with Get-Content cmdlet.

$xmlData.ContentSourcesScopesRules.ScopeRules.Rule |
ForEach-Object{
$ScopeName=$_.ScopeName
$contentSourceName=$_.ContentSourceName

When debugging I see the value of $_.ScopeName in the popup in Powershell ISE but when I then use the $ScopeName variable in another cmdlet it is empty.

Do you have any idea how to get the xml value into a variable as a string? I tried some strongtyping of the variables but may some casting is needed…

Thanks for any feedback – I know it is maybe better to ask in a forum ..

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