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Cheries
Cheries

Reputation: 892

How to append new attributes in xml using Powershell?

I have xml file like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DATA>
  <Platform>
    <D1>8536</D1>
  </Platform>
  <Timestamp>
    <Create>Friday, August 23, 2019 4:34:18 PM</Create>
  </Timestamp>
</DATA>

I want to add an element in <Timestamp>. My Expectation like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DATA>
  <Platform>
    <D1>8536</D1>
  </Platform>
  <Timestamp>
    <Create>Friday, August 23, 2019 4:34:18 PM</Create>
    <Info>Started</Info>
  </Timestamp>
</DATA>

Here's my attempt so far:

$fileName = "D:\file.xml"
$xmlDoc = [System.Xml.XmlDocument](Get-Content $fileName)
$newXmlEmployeeElement = $xmlDoc.CreateElement("Info")
$newXmlEmployee = $xmlDoc.DATA.Timestamp.AppendChild($newXmlEmployeeElement)
$xmlDoc.Save($fileName)

Anyone can help really appreciated. Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1360

Answers (2)

Moerwald
Moerwald

Reputation: 11304

You can use the InnerText property of the newly created element:

$fileName = "test.xml"
$xmlDoc = [System.Xml.XmlDocument](Get-Content $fileName)
$newXmlEmployeeElement = $xmlDoc.CreateElement("Info")
$newXmlEmployee = $xmlDoc.DATA.Timestamp.AppendChild($newXmlEmployeeElement)

# Set the value via this line!
$newXmlEmployeeElement.InnerText = "1.2.3.4"


$xmlDoc.Save($fileName)

Getting the content of the file:

> gc .\test.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DATA>
  <Platform>
    <D1>8536</D1>
  </Platform>
  <Timestamp>
    <Create>Friday, August 23, 2019 4:34:18 PM</Create>
    <Info>1.2.3.4</Info>
  </Timestamp>
</DATA>

Upvotes: 2

mklement0
mklement0

Reputation: 440297

The only thing missing from your code is to create the content for your new <Info> element:

$newXmlEmployeeElement.InnerText = 'Started'

Upvotes: 3

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