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# Another view we can improve is the way that XML is rendered in PowerShell
[xml]"<a an='anattribute'><b d='attribute'><c/></b></a>" # It's not very intuitive. # I cannot really only see the element I am looking at, instead of a chunk of data # Create a quick view for any XML element. # Piping it into Out-FormatData will make one or more format views into a full format XML file # Piping the output of that into Add-FormatData will create a temporary module to hold the formatting data # There's also a Remove-FormatData and Write-FormatView -TypeName "System.Xml.XmlNode" -Wrap -Property "Xml" -VirtualProperty @{ "Xml" = { $strWrite = New-Object IO.StringWriter ([xml]$_.Outerxml).Save($strWrite) "$strWrite" } } | Out-FormatData | Add-FormatData # Now let's take a look at how the xml renders [xml]"<a an='anattribute'><b d='attribute'><c /></b></a>" # In case we want to go back to the original formatter, we can remove the formatter # without giving the formatter a name, the Remove-FormatData -Name "System.Xml.XmlNode" # And we're back to the original formatting [xml]"<a an='anattribute'><b d='attribute'><c/></b></a>" |