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#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 6
When we analyze XML documents with XPath we may need information about number of certain items. For example, we can have an XHTML document with several tables and we can…
#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 5
XPath has one big disadvantage–it’s case sensitive. Unlike regular expressions, there is no way to “turn it off”. But there is a way around it. To make part of the…
#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 4
Filtering using XPath is not limited to queries that make sure that existing value is equal to value that we are interested in. If the data within XML is numeric,…
#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 3
Filtering data with XPath works very well even if we need more complex filters that require information from different levels in the XML document. Perfect example of such document is…
#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 2
XPath can be used to apply ‘filter left’ philosophy to XML documents. For example we can find any h1 element with ‘title’ id using the following syntax: Note: You can…
#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 1
This is the first tip in a series of Select-Xml/XPath tips. Working with XML documents in PowerShell is relatively easy. For most things it is enough to read XML file…
