How to use powershell to get the specific xml element?

Question

Currently we have a xml file such as :

<file>
 <dircetory name="test">
  <directory name="test1">
   <directory name="test2"></directory>
  </directory>
 </directory>
 <directory name="test2">
 </directory>
</file>

The xml structure is not stable, but I need to get the xml node by name attribute

Now I get the "test2" string, and try to get the <directory name="test2"></directory> element, I could use foreach to iterator one by one, but is there any elegent way to do that ?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use an XPath expression like this to find the relevant nodes:

//*[@name='test2']

Then use the Select-Xml cmdlet and a foreach loop to iterate over the matching nodes:

foreach($result in Select-Xml -Path document.xml -XPath "//*[@name='test2']"){
    # Work with $result.Node in here
}