Powershell load multiple XML-CodePudding

Newbie to Powershell. I'd like to parse multiple files one after another. In order to do this, I need to load the files as a XML. This is my code so far:

 for ($i=0; $i -le 5; $i  ) 
{ 
     $contents = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Force -Recurse 
     File |Select-Object -First $i | Select-Object -Last 1 
     $fl = $contents.Name
     $xml.Load(".\downloads\Test\$fl")
 }

If I remove for ($i=0; $i -le 5; $i ) it works. But I need it to work with the for loop. Any ideas?

CodePudding user response：

you could do:

$filepaths = (get-childitem -Path C:\tmp -Recurse -Filter '*.xml').psPath

#XML per cast
$xmldocuments = @(
    $filepaths | %{
        [xml](get-content -path $_)
    }
)

Alternatively create a new xml object and use the load method

$xml = New-Object -TypeName xml
$xmldocuments = @(
    $filepaths | %{
        $xml.Load($_)
        $xml
    }
)

The Array xmlDocuments contains each xml document as element.

CodePudding user response：

Solved it with this code:

$files = Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath ".\downloads\Test" 
$xml = New-Object System.Xml.XmlDocument
foreach ($file in $files) 
{
$xml.Load($file.FullName)
}

This enabled me to acess and encode every file in the folder.