Ignore Namespace in XML document using Powershell

Question

I have huge list of XML files (over 100 000) and wanted to access specific node value in each of them using powershell. Issue I'm having is that all of them have namespaces that take you nowhere. Do you know what would be the best way to ignore it?

use xpath to find a specific node

guiwhatsthat
– guiwhatsthat

2019-05-16 08:32:03 +00:00
Commented May 16, 2019 at 8:32 — guiwhatsthat
– guiwhatsthat, Commented May 16, 2019 at 8:32
Select-Xml is your friend.

Moerwald
– Moerwald

2019-05-16 08:58:14 +00:00
Commented May 16, 2019 at 8:58 — Moerwald
– Moerwald, Commented May 16, 2019 at 8:58

Ansgar Wiechers · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-16 10:09:53Z

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[xml]$xml = Get-Content file.xml

Then access $xml as a PowerShell object (e.g. $xml.some.node).

edited May 16, 2019 at 10:09

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montonero Over a year ago

This does not answer OPs question regarding namespaces.

Ansgar Wiechers Over a year ago

@montonero It does answer the question, since dot-accessing the XML data structure ignores namespaces.

Chris Arbogast Over a year ago

In my case I found that $xml was empty if file.xml had namespaces or maybe xsd references that could not be resolved. So there is that.

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