Powershell select where attribute exists

Question

I have three nodes with the same name but with different attributes. I would like to only select the one where the bar attribute exists.

<Test foo="Hello" />
<Test bar="World" />
<Test zed="Goodbye" />

Mathias R. Jessen · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-03 14:18:07Z

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You could use XPath for this:

Select-Xml -Path path\to\file.xml -XPath '//Test[@bar]'

//Test will resolve any <Test> nodes anywhere in the tree, [@bar] filters them by whether they have a bar attribute or not

answered May 3, 2021 at 13:31

Mathias R. Jessen

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The OP requests for @bar. So in this example it should be: //Test[@bar]