using Data Object XML with Powershell

Question

I am trying to print the key value pair from Data Object type XML using a Powershell script.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
    <Objects>
      <Object Type="System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject">
        <Property Name="Display" Type="System.String">Microsoft</Property>
        <Property Name="Service" Type="Microsoft.Management.Service">Database</Property>
      </Object>
      <Object Type="System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject">
        <Property Name="Display" Type="System.String">Microsoft</Property>
        <Property Name="Service" Type="Microsoft.Management.Service">RPC</Property>
      </Object>
    </Objects>

Here is the script used.

[xml]$file = Get-Content C:\xml-report.xml

foreach ($obj in $file.Objects.Object) {
    echo $obj.Display;
echo $obj.Service;
}​

How should I iterate through each key (Display, Service) and print only the values of those- ie

Microsoft 
Database 
Microsoft 
RPC 

The output which I get now is as below. Could someone help me here?

Object
Object
Object

Answer 1

As you are trying to explicitly access the properties with name Service and Display , here is a solution to directly access those, in case your xml file contains more elements you're not concerned with:

foreach ($obj in $file.Objects.Object.Property) {
  if('Display','Service' -contains $obj.Name) {
    write-output $obj.'#text'
  }
}

Or in one line:

$file.Objects.Object.Property | ? { 'Display','Service' -contains $_.name } | Select '#text'

Answer 2

You were just omitting the Property element. Your loop would work with a slight modification:

[xml]$file = Get-Content "C:\temp\xml-report.xml"

foreach ($obj in $file.Objects.Object) 
{
    $obj.Property | % { $_.'#text' }
}

Answer 3

If you are using Powershell version 3 or above you could try use this:

[xml]$file = Get-Content C:\xml-report.xml
$file.Objects.Object.Property.'#text'