Powershell convert xml to string

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PowerShell – Convert XML to String

In PowerShell, you can convert an XML object to a string using the OuterXml property of the XML object. This property returns the XML representation of the object as a string.

Example:

$xml = @"
<bookstore>
  <book genre="novel" publicationdate="2021-01-01" ISBN="123456789">
    <title>Sample Book</title>
    <author>John Doe</author>
    <price>19.99</price>
  </book>
</bookstore>
"@

# Load the XML string
[xml]$xmlObject = $xml

# Convert the XML object to a string
$xmlString = $xmlObject.OuterXml

# Output the result
$xmlString

In the above example, we have an XML string containing book information. By using the [xml] type accelerator, we load the string as an XML object. Then we access the OuterXml property of the object, which returns the XML representation of the object as a string. Finally, we assign the result to the variable $xmlString and output it.

The output will be:

<book genre="novel" publicationdate="2021-01-01" ISBN="123456789">
  <title>Sample Book</title>
  <author>John Doe</author>
  <price>19.99</price>
</book>

As you can see, the $xmlString variable now contains the XML content as a string.

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