Hi there,
I'm fairly new to PowerShell and I'm trying to read the value of an attribute from a collection of nodes in an XML file.
Here's the structure from the XML file that I'm reading from:
<Inventory> <Permissions> <Permission Principal="DOMAINAdmin-Group" Role="Admin" /> <Permission Principal="DOMAINAdmin-Group" Role="PowerUser" /> <Permission Principal="DOMAINAdmin-Group" Role="User" /> <Permission Principal="DOMAINPower-Group" Role="PowerUser" /> <Permission Principal="DOMAINPower-Group" Role="User" /> <Permission Principal="DOMAINUser-Group" Role="User" /> </Permissions> </Inventory>
What I want to be able to do is read the Principal attribute and end up with a list that looks like the following:
DOMAINAdmin-Group DOMAINPower-Group DOMAINUser-Group
You'll notice that in the XML document, there are multiple nodes with the same value for the Principal attribute. In the final list that I want to produce, I only want the unique values, but at this stage I'm trying to understand how to read the actual Principal attribute.
I came across this site that I thought would solve my problem >http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/ebook/archive/2009/03/30/chapter-14-xml.aspx#accessing-attributes
.. however when I use $xmldata.Inventory.Permissions.Permission.GetAttribute("Principal"), I get an error in PowerShell saying:
Method invocation failed because [System.Object[]] doesn't contain a method named 'GetAttribute'.
At script.ps1:95 char:55
+ $xmldata.Inventory.Permissions.Permission.GetAttribute <<<< ("Principal")
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (GetAttribute:String) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound
Is anyone able to tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Chris.