Powershell reading from a XML - powershell

Question

I am attempting to read from an XML file and make an output of the information.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ModelList>
<Model name="ThinkCentre M715Q">
<Types>
<Type>10M4</Type>
<Type>10RA</Type>
<Type>10RB</Type>
<Type>10M5</Type>
<Type>10RC</Type>
<Type>10M2</Type>
<Type>10RD</Type>
<Type>10M3</Type>
</Types>
</Model>
</ModelList>
I managed to get the output of the model attribute with the following powershell code.
[xml]$xmlFile = Get-Content -Path C:\Temp\data.xml
$xmlFile.GetType().Attributes
$xmlFile.ModelList.Model | Format-Table
Output information with the current code above:
name Types
---- -----
ThinkCentre M715Q Types
But... As you can see, the Types attribute is just types. I also want to be able to read the nested information inside of the ModelList. I want the output to be more like this:
name Types
---- -----
ThinkCentre M715Q 10M4, 10RA, 10RB, 10M5, 10RC...
I am stuck here. I need guidance to just simply bind the attributes. That Types attribute knows it is associated with the Model of ThinkCentre. Any help is appreciated! Thanks.

Answer 1

Since your XML could contain more models and types, you would need to loop over the nodes.
Also, there is a better way to load the xml than using Get-Content that automatically takes the documents encoding into account:
# load the xml file. This way, you are ensured to get the file encoding correct
$xml = [System.Xml.XmlDocument]::new()
$xml.Load('C:\Temp\data.xml')
foreach ($model in $xml.ModelList.Model) {
[PsCustomObject]#{
Model = $model.Name
Types = $model.Types.Type -join ', '
}
}
Output:
Model Types
----- -----
ThinkCentre M715Q 10M4, 10RA, 10RB, 10M5, 10RC, 10M2, 10RD, 10M3