Create an XML-based representation of one or more PowerShell objects.
Syntax
ConvertTo-XML [-InputObject] psobject
[-As {String | Stream | Document} ]
[-Depth int] [-NoTypeInformation] [CommonParameters]
Key
-As string
Format as: a String (returns a single string),a Stream (returns an array
of strings) or a Document (returns an XmlDocument)
-CssUri Uri
The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the cascading style sheet
The CSS URI is included as a style sheet link in the output.
-inputObject psobject
The object(s) to represent as XML.
A variable that contains the object(s) or a command/expression that gets the object(s).
When the -InputObject parameter is used to submit a collection of items,
ConvertTo-XML receives one object that represents the collection.
Because one object cannot be converted, ConvertTo-XML returns the entire collection unchanged.
To convert multiple items, pipe them to ConvertTo-XML.
This parameter is an implementation detail: its purpose is to enable input via the pipeline, and its
direct use with arrays (collections) does not (yet) provide any useful functionality.
-NoTypeInformation
Omit the Type attribute from the object nodes.
-Depth int
The number of levels of contained objects to include.
The default value is 1.
For example, if an object’s properties also contain objects,
specify a depth of 2 to include them.
The default value can be overridden in Types.ps1xml
CommonParameters:
-Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -WarningAction, -WarningVariable,
-OutBuffer -OutVariable.
If you submit multiple objects, such as all of the services on a computer,ConvertTo-Xml will display the properties of the collection / array.
To display the individual objects, use the pipeline operator to pipe the objects to ConvertTo-Xml one at a time.
Export-Clixml is the same as ConvertTo-XML, except that it saves to a file.
Display the date as XML on the console :
PS C:\> Get-Date | ConvertTo-XML
Convert 3 levels of the system processes to XML:
PS C:\> Get-Process | ConvertTo-XML -depth 3
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Select-XML - Find text in an XML string or document