PowerShell - xml files with conflicting multiple namespaces on the same element name - powershell

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Related to PowerShell 5.1
I was playing around with XML to show how to handle conflicting namespaces. Here's the example I created:
<Employees>
<ms:Employee id='1' xmlns:ms="MicrosoftEmployees">
<FirstName>Bill</FirstName>
<LastName>Gates</LastName>
</ms:Employee>
<ms:Employee id='2' xmlns:ms="MicrosoftEmployees">
<FirstName>Paul</FirstName>
<LastName>Allen</LastName>
</ms:Employee>
<ap:Employee id='1' xmlns:ap="AppleEmployees">
<Name>Steve Jobs</Name>
</ap:Employee>
<ap:Employee id='2' xmlns:ap="AppleEmployees">
<Name>Steve Wozniak </Name>
</ap:Employee>
</Employees>
The scenario might be combining data from two different companies.
PowerShell demonstration program:
cls
$filename = "c:\XMLClass\IntroSamples\Sample05_Simpler_Namespace.xml"
[xml]$xmlDoc = Get-Content $filename
$xmlDoc.Employees.Employee[0]
$xmlDoc.Employees.Employee[1]
$xmlDoc.Employees.Employee[2]
$xmlDoc.Employees.Employee[3]
Output:
id ms FirstName LastName
-- -- --------- --------
1 MicrosoftEmployees Bill Gates
2 MicrosoftEmployees Paul Allen
1
2
Is there anyway to get a more logical output?
It seems like PowerShell locks into the first schema it sees for the Employee element, then cannot show the Name element of the Apple employees. This actually makes sense, but I was just checking to see if there is something fancier to handle this that I might be missing.
I know I could use SelectSingleNodes and XPath, but was just trying to see if and how PowerShell could handle this "out of the box".
If I reverse the code:
$xmlDoc.Employees.Employee[2]
$xmlDoc.Employees.Employee[3]
$xmlDoc.Employees.Employee[1]
$xmlDoc.Employees.Employee[0]
Then the output is:
id ap Name
-- -- ----
1 AppleEmployees Steve Jobs
2 AppleEmployees Steve Wozniak
1 ms:Employee
2 ms:Employee

Answer 1

Use format list to see all the properties. Format-table doesn't handle different sets of properties well.
$xmldoc.employees.employee | format-list
id : 1
ms : MicrosoftEmployees
FirstName : Bill
LastName : Gates
id : 2
ms : MicrosoftEmployees
FirstName : Paul
LastName : Allen
id : 1
ap : AppleEmployees
Name : Steve Jobs
id : 2
ap : AppleEmployees
Name : Steve Wozniak